[iconosynclast]

I'm amazed by the number of people here that think 16 or even 8 gigs are "enough" for everyday use. Sure you CAN live like that but it's noticably painful with even the most pedestrian of usage. open a browser and a handful of tabs, there goes 4 gigs, open some messengers and you got another couple gigs gone. maybe that's fine as long as browser and messengers are literally all you do but the machine becoming painfully slow to use as soon as you go from background level usage to any sort of productivity is not "good enough" by a long shot IMO

[Ancapistani]

My primary "personal" system is an M1 MBP with 8GB of RAM. I edit 6K video on it all the time. While it could certainly use more RAM, I don't feel like I need it bad enough to justify spending the money right now.

My gaming desktop only has 16GB of RAM. It's the fastest DDR4 that my motherboard will support, granted, but all of the games I play on it are CPU or GPU bound. Additional RAM isn't going to significantly help anything.

[iconosynclast]

It's acceptable and can do a lot for sure but I was getting the vibe a lot of people consider more basically pointless which it IMO isn't. I think with a little bit of multitasking most users would experience a noticable improvement

[ehutch79]

Is the problem actually the lack of ram though? We used to browse the web just fine on megabytes of ram... Now I expect modern sites to take my resources, but 1000x more?

[iconosynclast]

arguably the problem is the excessive use of the resource but that's kinda just the reality of it. I'm not saying it's impossible to deal with it but it's no where near the point where I never have to think about it which is what I would consider truly "enough"