Re: Memory

On 11/18/24 6:39 PM, pothead wrote:

On 2024-11-17, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

-hh wrote:

vallor wrote:

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I believe I've had two machines this past decade.  The
old one I'd built, had 64GB iirc.  Current one has 258G.

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And how many normal people do you know who's home PCs are similarly so
equipped?  Particularly non-geeks/gamers who do fine in the 4-8GB range?

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Well, 4GB was getting weak ten years ago.  My last decade has been
dominated by my Ivy Bridge machine, which had 8GB and did just fine,
really, and my Skylake machine, which still gets used and has 16GB.
My Alder Lake machine has 32GB.

I've had no problem with 4GB workplace productivity PCs even up through Win10, for just the likes of MS-Office, Teams, Outlook, Acrobat, etc.

RAM is cheap and handy to have around.

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RAM has gotten cheaper (& rarely hurts), but when there's COLA boys who
are loathe to spend more than $50 for an entire machine,

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Yeah?  And some, like vallor, are not.

Sure, there's exceptions such as Scott.  But the exception doesn't change the rule of thumb.

Again, asshole, you pretend that Linux users are any different than
are people at large.

Looking at COLA, one can't actually believe that claim.

It's true that some are cheap.  But some are
extravagant. 

So besides Scott, just who might be these "extravagant" ones be?

The vast majority are reasonable and somewhere
in-between cheap and extravagant.
>

In the corporate world, the tech refresh cycle fo equipment and that includes everything
from mainframe iron to x86 PCs both desktop and server revolves around how the the
iron was sold in the first place which is usually 1 year of warranty and 2-4 years of maintenance
coverage by the vendor.
 So in general happens as the contracts are expiring, the client is offered a deal on the
latest and greatest by the marketing divisions of said companies be it Dell, IBM, HP or whomever. >
Bottom line it's cheaper to tech refresh and get the latest rather than renewing contracts
on older hardware.

Precisely.  The era of Enterprise doing in-house upgrades died a long time ago, even before the migration to notebooks.

[R]inse and repeat every 3-4 years or so.

A five year cycle works for business tax write-off purposes too.
One can stretch it too, with a "let sleeping dogs lie" policy : let the out-of-warranty PC say in use until it breaks and the employee puts in a service service request, at which point you deploy a new PC to them.
-hh