Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by Blindedwino on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:07PM
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I would venture to say that most of the world isn't using computers with 32GB RAM...
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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by meuk on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:48AM
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I consider 2GB acceptable, 4GB normal, and 8GB high-end (maybe even overkill).
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by golergka on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:39AM
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Strange, that's the metric I personally used around 2008. Haven't ran into a computer with less than 16GB for the last few years.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by oblio on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:52AM
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A rather popular hardware site in a developing country, but one on the upper range of "developing". So probably better off than 60% of the world's population:
399 laptops with 4GB of RAM: https://www.pcgarage.ro/notebook-laptop/filtre/memorie-capac...
548 laptops with 8GB of RAM: https://www.pcgarage.ro/notebook-laptop/filtre/memorie-capac...
Less than 200 laptops, in total, with 16GB RAM or more. So probably less than 20% of the laptops on sale have that much memory, in 2018.
The "real" world is quite different to what us folks in IT see in our corner of the world.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by Macha on Sunday March 11, 2018 @06:30AM
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8GB is still a pretty common setup
* Literally every current MacBook except the 15" MBP
* iMacs unless you choose to upgrade the RAM
* My local PC retailers website has 34 models with 4GB of RAM, 84 with 8GB and 28 with 16GB. The cheapest 16gb laptop there is €1100. They also sell 3 Chromebooks and 1 windows 10 device with 2GB of RAM..