Tim BrayApr 21, 2023

My laptops since about 2018 have all had 32G of memory. No combination of Lightroom, video streaming, Jetbrains IDEs, Slack, dozens of browser tabs, and recently generative graphics have ever caused detectible memory pressure.

I’m beginning to think that for the vast majority of people, 32G is enough memory, for the foreseeable future.

Show threadAlastair Campbell
@timbray I wonder if it's a relative thing? I.e. most people have 8 or 16GB, so software gets tested to that. (To the point of mostly working, not perfectly.) If you have 32GB, you're going to hit issues a lot less.
If 32GB becomes typical, time to move to 64...
Apr 21, 2023 at 12:50pmWeb