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My understanding is that this is primarily hitting DDR5 RAM (or better). With prices so inflated, is there an argument to revert and downgrade systems to DDR4 RAM technology in many use cases (which is not so inflated)?
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Apps can't be 100MB on modern displays, because there are literally too many pixels involved. Not that I know what's going on in an Electron app heap (because there's no inspection tools afaik), but I'm guessing much of it is compiled code and the rest is images and text layout related.
> Apps can't be 100MB on modern displays, because there are literally too many pixels involved. What? Are you talking about assets? You'd need a considerable amount of very high-res, uncompressed or low-compressed assets to use up 100MB. Not to mention all the software that uses vector icons, which take up a near-zero amount of space in comparison to raster images. Electron apps always take up a massive amount of spa…
This reminds me of the recent LaurieWired video presenting a hypothetical of, "what if we stopped making CPUs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2OJFqs8bUk Spoiler, but the answer is basically that old hardware rules the day because it lasts longer and is more reliable of timespans of decades. DDR5 32GB is currently going for ~$330 on Amazon DDR4 32GB is currently going for ~$130 on Amazon DDR3 32GB is currently goin…
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I made a website: https://ontario-chips.vercel.app/
I suppose it would help if I could read the whole page: I cannot see the left few characters on Firefox on Android. What did you make this with? Note that fixing the site won't increase my chances of donating, I'm from the ASML country ;)
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Maybe but in my experience a good old 100GB from 2014+ in longevity. Some say they have the opposite experience, mine is ONLY Intel drives, maybe that is why. X25-E is the diamond peak of SSDs probably forever since the machines to make 45nm SLC are gone.
Which tells me your experience is incredibly limited. Intel was very good, and when they partnered with Micron, made objectively the best SSD's ever made (3DXPoint Optanes). I lament that they sold their storage business unit, though of all the potential buyers, SK was probably the best case scenario (they since rebranded that into Solidigm). The intel X25-E was a great drive, but it is not great by modern standards…
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I, for one, would not miss a single one of the electron apps I'm forced to use. Every single one of them makes me feel like the vendor is telling me "we can't be bothered employing half decent developers or giving the developers we have enough time and resources to write decent software, so we're just going to use cheap and inexperience web developers and burn another gigabyte or two of your memory to run what could…
Apps can't be 100MB on modern displays, because there are literally too many pixels involved. Not that I know what's going on in an Electron app heap (because there's no inspection tools afaik), but I'm guessing much of it is compiled code and the rest is images and text layout related.
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With no prior experience? 0%. Those machines are not just like printers :-)
Especially when the plan is to just run them in a random rented commercial warehouse. I drive by a large fab most days of the week. A few breweries I like are down the street from a few small boutique fabs. I got to play with some experimental fab equipment in college. These aren't just some quickly thrown together spaces in any random warehouse. And it's also ignoring the water manufacturing process, and having the…
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Yes, DDR3 is the lowest CAS latency and lasts ALOT longer. Just like SSDs from 2010 have 100.000 writes per bit instead of below 10.000. CPUs might even follow the same durability pattern but that remains to be seen. Keep your old machines alive and backed up!
Old machines use a lot more power (worse nm), and DDR5 has equivalent to ECC, while previously you had to specifically get ECC RAM and it wouldn't work on cheaper Intel hardware (bulk of old hardware is going to be Intel).
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I found web browser tabs eating too much memory when you only have 16GB
That's strange. How many tabs are we talking? Are they running something intense or just ordinary webpages?
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I found web browser tabs eating too much memory when you only have 16GB
With that much RAM, you could fit multiple OSes entirely into memory. That is simply a lot.