Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by dwedge on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:40PM (#49247862)

Yeah this blows my mind. My work laptops were pretty powerful with 16GB RAM 15 years ago, 8GB was also fine. Now people say you need 32 or 64 minimum just to function, that these 8GB MacBook neos are "entry level" for students and kids.

I know it's all "back in my day" but back in my day (15 years ago) everything was generally software so the laptop was computing more, now everything is a website but the laptops need 32GB to not run like through tar.

Both of my arm MacBook pros hang from time to time doing basic tasks. It's ridiculous and at least one nice side effect of a ram shortage might be developers starting to care about memory footprint again

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by AlexandrB on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:58PM (#49248094)

This is another form of shrinkflation. Software quality (specifically performance) has cratered so that it could be built cheaper, faster, and with more ads.

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by neutronicus on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:54PM (#49248041)

I have had the same work Windows box since 2019 and it has become agonizingly slow over the last 7 years.

Anytime I look in Task Manager "Anti-malware Service Executable" is pegging at least one CPU core.

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by Marsymars on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:15PM (#49249861)

FWIW, Windows dev drives can situationally aleviate a bunch of this pain.

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