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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Clubber on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:50AM (#35422634)
I think he was being intentionally hyperbolic, alluding to the fact that Windows' published minimum specs are way to low (like Vista) and the actual specs needed to run are much higher because the bloat.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by layer8 on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:21AM (#35425220)
“Way too low” isn’t really true. I have RDP and Firefox and Word and Excel open, and Windows still uses just around 4 GB of RAM according to Task Manager.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Clubber on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:25AM (#35425316)
It depends on the version. In Vista, the one mentioned, they certainly were. It you ran a computer using the minimum specs, it was almost unusable.

https://www.osnews.com/story/16675/vista-minimum-requirement...

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by layer8 on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:28AM (#35425380)
Yes, but I think Vista was an outlier in that respect.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Clubber on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:15PM (#35428742)
It was certainly the most egregious I recall, but here's an article complaining about Windows 10 minimum specs too.

https://winaero.com/the-real-system-requirements-for-windows...

Here's one for Windows 11

https://www.makeuseof.com/is-4gb-ram-enough-for-windows-11/

Seems Windows 8 was ok

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2221048/will-windows-8-...

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by babypuncher on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:10PM (#35428642)
Vista came out over 15 years ago, it hardly seems relevant today.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by goosedragons on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:46PM (#35433920)
The same could be said of Mac OS 10.4 at the same time. It was an absolute dog on systems without Quartz Extreme support.
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