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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
Dell and Lenovo price gouge consumers
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Waaaayyy back in the day Dell had a real bad habit of limiting their low and midrange laptops to pitiful amounts of memory to stratify their product line even though the chipset might support more.
I thought I'd be fine, that I'd buy the other 16GB stick later. Now is later, I am screwed. I had to enable the use of ALT-SysRq-f to manually invoke OOM-killer because I often run out of RAM.
8GB just feels like way too little for a new laptop. Well, maybe the absolutely cheap ones, but "mid-range", no.
It's crazy. A bit over a year ago I got a refurbished ThinkPad for €180 with 1x16GB of RAM. Now that RAM costs around €120.
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That's going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.
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It’s not even going to run chrome my guys
Apples going to come out with a 4gb phone and somehow still pitch it as a glorious innovation.