Development quotes of the week

Posted Feb 1, 2019 20:33 UTC (Fri) by Pc5Y9sbv (guest, #41328)
In reply to: Development quotes of the week by excors
Parent article: Development quotes of the week

I can live with a slower CPU most of the time, but 1 GB RAM seems far longer than 10 years ago...

I recall about 10 years ago we had an Asus Eebox to play with at work. Under test, it struck me as sufficient CPU for basic work, but 1 GB RAM was too small even then.

Today, even my budget 2 year old smartphone has 2 GB of RAM. My general-purpose laptop or desktop configuration has 16 GB (which I think is sometimes insufficient but balances cost and power draw). However, I often choose to live with an iGPU to avoid the additional power impact of a discrete GPU and its additional multi-GB chunk of RAM.