[johansch]

My experience on an i4790k machine with 8 GB RAM after "upgrading" to Win 10:

Chrome tabs tend to get swapped out to SSD quite quickly. Re-opening those tabs takes a few seconds now, compared to instantly before. Am pondering adding another 8 GB for a total of 16 to see if it helps...

[bkjelden]

I was running Windows 7 with an HDD and just upgraded to an SSD & Windows 10 because I got sick of listening to my HDD groan for 10 seconds whenever I changed tabs :)

I wonder you're experiencing a use case where you'd see notable perf improvements from a pcie ssd. Jeff Atwood blogged about his upgrade to a faster ssd last week: http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-viii-iterati...

Of course, assuming you have unused RAM, it would be nice if the OS would just use the RAM available before swapping to SSD.

[DiabloD3]

I have 32GB in my workstation for exactly one app. That app is a browser. It's name starts with C.

[omgtehlion]

Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(

[rodgerd]

Nonsense. I have a Windows 10 laptop with 2 GB of memory and it browses very happily. Just don't use Chrome.

[heywire]

Ironically, my little C720 Chromebook running Chrome OS with 2GB of ram browses pretty decently as well. But it also only has 1366x768 of screen real estate to worry about...

[alyandon]

This is a pretty sad state of affairs with the modern web.

I have an old Linux box running with 4GB of ram under my desk right now and it is borderline unusable for surfing the web with Chrome if I have any other applications open in the background. Firefox isn't as bad but it is also not a pleasant experience either.

At home, I have a laptop with 2GB of ram that I've upgraded to Windows 10 and the Windows Edge browser is also virtually unusable because of memory usage with more than a couple of tabs open.

[ionised]

What makes you say this? It's not even remotely true.