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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
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[–] Specal@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Her laptop just wasn't having it, windows 11, windows was using 3.7gb ram took about 30 seconds for task manager to open. As soon as I upgraded the ram is was usable.

I checked for any surprising background services or anti virus software and there was nothing really

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That sounds more like issues Windows would have running on an HDD (or maybe eMMC) instead of an SSD… Bit that wouldn’t explain why it got better, when you upgraded the RAM…

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It's not worth trying to understand windows ram usage, it will drive any same person insane. The laptop uses intel optane as it's main drive, which is slower than an SSD but much much lower latency so should actually be perfect for the job of being swap. But it shit the bed.