Dragxito@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoApple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horsewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square315fedilinkarrow-up1621arrow-down128
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minus-squareEcho DotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-25 months agoThat’s a daft take. The reason that software now requires more RAM is because it can do more than in 1998.
minus-squaresnownyte@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down5·5 months agoThat doesn’t excuse the ridiculously high requirements.
minus-squareEcho DotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 months agoYeah it does because no one in 2024 expects those limitations to exist. You can find software that can run on 15mb of ram but what’s the point when 99% of systems won’t have that limitation?
That’s a daft take. The reason that software now requires more RAM is because it can do more than in 1998.
That doesn’t excuse the ridiculously high requirements.
Yeah it does because no one in 2024 expects those limitations to exist. You can find software that can run on 15mb of ram but what’s the point when 99% of systems won’t have that limitation?