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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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