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Re:Slow Software by flukus on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:15PM (#18507825)
The machine you posted is pretty typical of PC gamers according to the steam user survey (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined). 8GB+ of RAM only got to 50% of users a couple of years ago. I suspect most non-pc gamers machines to be even worse, the firefox survey has 30% of people still on 4GB: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware .

> I can tell you from experience that Windows 10 isn't a fun experience on anything other than a fast SSD.

Agreed, I think MS are dogfooding exclusively on surface books.

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Re:Slow Software by imtringued on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:59AM (#18509721)
>The machine you posted is pretty typical of PC gamers according to the steam user survey

The linked laptop still has an ancient 1366 x 768 screen which is only 12.62% of all players that have taken the survey.

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