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A comment on Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by meuk on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:48AM (#16562103)
I consider 2GB acceptable, 4GB normal, and 8GB high-end (maybe even overkill).
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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by golergka on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:39AM (#16562338)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by oblio on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:52AM (#16562648)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by Macha on Sunday March 11, 2018 @06:30AM (#16562466)
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..

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