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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...
Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(
Overall very informative and he's good at explaining. At first I thought the concept was stupid but it's actually clever. Also: "If you have enough memory [...] nothing is gonna get compressed either." So it's not like this slows you down if you don't have to worry about memory size (like me).
If it just weren't "the one hand giveth the other hand taketh away." I don't use Windows 10 but I read that the uncontrollable updates which take long time are very annoying. Is it really that bad?
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...
Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(
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.
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Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(
Nonsense. I have a Windows 10 laptop with 2 GB of memory and it browses very happily. Just don't use Chrome.
If it just weren't "the one hand giveth the other hand taketh away." I don't use Windows 10 but I read that the uncontrollable updates which take long time are very annoying. Is it really that bad?
I guess it will slightly reduce the overall security but as I only use it as a VM and am generally testing locally its an acceptable trade off in my opinion. The reason I set it up this way was to avoid the time sinks that come from when I do use Windows and then have to wait an age for updates to be done when I'm focusing on work. Previously I always used the option to be notified about updates rather than auto install which was a reasonable trade off. I understand why Microsoft made the change but I strongly disagree with it.
Is memory shortage really a problem these days? Frankly, if you have like 12-16GB of RAM, which is realistic even for notebooks, and you don't have 200 browser tabs open or work on very special tasks, you'll never fill that RAM. In fact, I've been running Windows 7 with paging disabled (no pagefile to lessen SSD wear. Turns out that was not necessary since you'd have to page astronomic amounts to wear it noticeably)…
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Apple has been very serious about not wanting you to know what's going on in your machine since around 1984. The first Mac needed an extra-long hex wrench to open, a very uncommon tool at the time. They want good developer communities for good apps, yet they don't give them full control.
I don't know about "not wanting you to know what's going on in your machine." It's more like they want you to treat their public OS API as "the machine": a clean black-box abstraction layer you can build on. What goes on underneath, while interesting, is not guaranteed to be stable . They might, say, replace x86 with ARM one day, as they already replaced PPC with x86. If you're targeting "the OSX platform", that does…
Is memory shortage really a problem these days? Frankly, if you have like 12-16GB of RAM, which is realistic even for notebooks, and you don't have 200 browser tabs open or work on very special tasks, you'll never fill that RAM. In fact, I've been running Windows 7 with paging disabled (no pagefile to lessen SSD wear. Turns out that was not necessary since you'd have to page astronomic amounts to wear it noticeably)…
Yes, and it's becoming worse for each year. Ultrabooks has at best 8 GB but 4 GB is the norm (at least last time I looked). And if you look at Surface Pro etc. 4 GB is the norm and 2 GB is mainstream. I might be 6 months out of date or something but regardless the current state is quite appalling. I'm writing this on a computer from 2008, and it has 8 GB of ram (and I've never updated it, I would have done it if the…