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by butz 12 days ago
Time to migrate all those electron "native" apps to actual native code. I bet with some decent optimizations 4GB will be more than enough for casual user, and still with some free memory to spare.
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it's more than casual users used to have, and most still do the same activities even decades after 2GB were enough

weather forecast wasn't more rainy on a 2005 windows PC or an early smartphone in 2G to save battery

FHD streaming has worked for decades now

The plot of animes was still enjoyable on DVD

Progress is important, but some companies don't realise how customers don't need it when it's twice their pay