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2021 called, memory is cheap.

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Notebook vendors didn't get this memo.

Don't buy a garbage laptop with soldered RAM and just upgrade it yourself?

Good solution. Which one that allows for 128GB do you recommend?

A workstation. Any professional one.

20 applications x 50GB = 1tb of memory.

o... kay?

You're not wrong, but who's talking about 20 applications?

Look at the amount of applications and web-application you have open at a given point.

If this is such a good idea, let's just all use iscsi and mount the internet.

Is it though? We are in the middle of a chip crisis where prices are raising to record levels...

Yes it is. In the grand scheme of things, looking at how far we've come DDR4 modules are cheap dollar per gigabyte.

And how many users have more than 16GB of RAM?

On phones too?

Phones are not first class devices.

Says who?

I do. Many others too. Or do you see books written on phones, programing being done on phones? Being able to install any program you like? No? Not first class then.

There are many things that can't be done on a phone that are possible on a PC. The reverse case is much harder.

I see Wikipedia being read on phones, which is the problem at hand.

The fact that you can't even add memory (be it RAM or storage, the later one is of course doable on some devices) to your phone makes them not first class devices.

Same with MacBooks? Sorry this sounds like utter nonsense.

Yes.

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