The thing is that I don't feel a very strong need for more memory... Of course Linux has always been way better at memory management then the competition so that may be a factor in things...
Yes firefox has a huge memory footprint, but most of that isn't required in main memory at any given moment and these days I guess I stopped playing so much with movie/image editing I also think the SSD has alleviated the need for large main memory a bit.... With the SSD programs on my laptop seem to start almost instantaneously, boot/reboot also take nothing, it used to be that I would go get a drink while I rebooted to update the kernel or something similar now before I manage to turn my back on the computer it already rebooted.... As far as features & prices went for the past years they did change/improve just not so much in RAM, CPUs improved, GPUs (discrete or integrated), chipsets, weight, screens ssds etc.... Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-12-07 18:18 GMT+02:00 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 13:30:07 +0200 > "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > >> BTW has anyone noticed how long we have been 'stuck' on 4GB RAM being >> enough memory.... > > I have. > > In July 2011 I bought each of my triplets a laptop they could use for > their freshman year college in the fall of 2011. At the time it seemed > like Moore's law was slowing down: It seemed like 4GB had been the most > common laptop configuration for a year or two, and it had been slowly > descending in price. I bought each of the three laptops for just under > $400USD each. > > People their age are very hard on laptops. They drop them. They use > them 10 hours a day. They use them in bed, on the blankets, where > there's no ventilation. They stumble on the power cord and break the > power jack. Bottom line, during the 4 years they were in college, I > needed to buy each of them two additional laptops. > > During that time, I noticed prices didn't drop, nor did RAM expand at > the same price. First there was the touchscreen thing, which seemed to > add about $200 to the price. So 4GB laptops went up into the high > $500's. As touchscreens came down in price, 4GB laptops seemed to > settle in the low $400's. It was the first time I can remember two > years passing where either features didn't get better or price get > lower (I don't consider touchscreen a feature). > > One of my daughters graduated from college last June. My son graduates > in a few days. In the last few months, I've *finally* seen the price > per Gig of laptop RAM go down. 4G laptops have finally achieved their > 2011 lows, and a few weeks ago Costco was featuring a 6 or 8GB laptop > for less than $400. > > And of course, now laptops and desktops aren't even a commodity > anymore: The major marketplace is the various kinds of "devices" and > "reconfigurables". With desktops it's no big deal: It's cheap and easy > to slam together a 16GB box. With laptops, I wonder if we'll ever get > better than what's happening now. > > Moore's law is dying. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques > of the Successful Technologist > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
