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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by gohrt on Thursday October 24, 2013 @01:41PM (#6606659)
4GB is plenty of RAM for a web browser with many tabs, especially with an SSD for backing virtual memory. If it isn't there is a memory leak, and if there is a leak, 8GB is as bad as 12GB.

My MBA has 4GB and I constantly forget, because it is enough, and I am constantly surprised that it doesn't have 8GB.

All modern web browsers save and restore sessions across restarts.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by B-Con on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:37PM (#6607041)
> 4GB is plenty of RAM for a web browser with many tabs,

I always up-to-date Firefox, so hopefully the memory leaks are minimal. I reboot my Linux machine every month-ish and don't exit Firefox unless necessary. I always keep a few "app" tabs pinned, only a couple of them are heavy. I have 4GB of RAM and turned swap off for an experiment. Sure enough, after a couple weeks of browsing and keeping about 25 tabs open, Firefox's memory consumption would creep up and up and eventually it would crash.

I can only guess/hope that there are memory leaks involved.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by r00fus on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:01PM (#6608314)
Re: MBA/MBP - with Mavericks 4GB is doable given how it aggressively manages memory: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/#compresse...
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