>16GB RAM to read and write text and see images... I think it just says it all.
More could be said about the bloatware, telemetry, surveillance, and adtech built into Windows.
Hard to imagine that 1GB was "a big deal" in my lifetime.
More could be said about the bloatware, telemetry, surveillance, and adtech built into Windows.
Hard to imagine that 1GB was "a big deal" in my lifetime.
Only when the resources are limited do we see optimization being done seriously.
Sure I don't need 32gb to do all that, but who knows what fun things will come from having that extra budget?
For 90% of browsing like searching and reading articles or watching video or using email, all of those worked on the almost same functionality 10 years ago with a fraction of the memory.
An example I have is a food orders website, which takes 4 seconds and 10MB to load, where all I want to do is go unsubscribe for the weekly order (where I need to unsubscribe every week because it's opt-out, I guess it's better for them). This page is crap because it can, not because it brings some value it couldn't without using all that compute power.
Then as a software engineer, many colleagues literally say "memory is cheap" very often, which kind of hints towards the fact that they don't care about optimizing for memory :-).
I honestly cannot really think of something I do now that is really useful for me and that I was not already able to do 10 years ago (hint: I don't use a copilot to code).