“Hey we cant be bothered using resources efficiently, please buy more ram :)”
“And pay the copislop”
Microsoft thinks all people have high-end machines. Or no, they just don’t care.
Business laptops still get 8gb tho. 16gb if you are middle mgt, because powerpointreally needs that extra 8gb ram …
Um, 16gb has been the minimum for years, as in “do not build a machine with less, you’ll regret it at some point”.
And 32 has been the “this is what you really want if you multi-task heavily”, so yea I wouldn’t try to game with less than 32.
My 2019 laptop came with 32 by default - you had to specifically choose 16.
I think people don’t realize how bloated Windows has become. I had a newer workstation laptop for work with 32 gig. My wife had a 15 year old laptop with 8 gig. Her machine ran zoom and spreadsheets much better than my work machine. My work machine was laggy. The difference was windows10 on high spec machine vs NixOS on the much older lower spec laptop.
The fact that they backed down on it means it’s not a hard fact, but something they want you to believe. Or maybe they’re going back to the drawboard to optimize it better. Or realistically, it does take that much to run well, but they’d rather deal with the aftermath than say it out loud since it’s less people shouting.
If they could make a better Windows, they would. But it’s possible it’s built on top of so much crap that they’d have to start from the beginning, and probably would just do like they did from the start, use someone else’s software to branch off of.
nothing a company says is fact… it’s 99% lies, or they are just firing people
Its what they wanted so they could run more garbage. Like how machines were said to not make the w11 cut, until adoption was poor and then they lowered the system bar.
I’ve been think quite a lot lately about how a tech company announces that something is now The Truth, and all the media posts stories about The Truth, and that therefore becomes The Truth and that’s that. It’s always been that way, I know, but it feels like these past few years, with crypto, NFTs, and now AI, it’s become more blatant.
Tech Bros say “AI is the future”, then force AI into everything, and that’s that. No one was asked, we were just given it, because they’ve spent a lot of money on it and need us to believe them.
