Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by BobbyTables2 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:37PM (#46521426)

We once ran Windows 95 with Encarta in about the same amount of disk space.

We crossed lunacy long ago.

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by grugagag on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:45PM (#46521484)

I remember my first PC had a HD of around 20Mb. It was vast at the time, I had so much software to keep me busy for a while that I I felt overwhelmed. Amongst those there was Windows 3.0, taking probably a whopping 3mb

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by vrighter on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:48AM (#46523695)

My first PC (my parents splurged on a high-end machine (for the time, of course) only had 8MiB of memory and a 1 GiB HDD. It ran windows 95 and encarta just fine.

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by thedeadgamer on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:56AM (#46525907)

Whoa, Encarta was such a great thing back in the day for me. Brought back memories.

I agree, that we crossed lunacy long ago, and that LLMs have not helped in the slightest.

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