Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/20/25 11:39 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 20/01/2025 16:14, John Ames wrote:

RAM issues; unfortunately,
with every single webpage chewing up 50+ MB even with scripts disabled,
you just end up swapping like nobody's business with only 4 GB; the 2nd-
generation i5 doesn't help, either.)

 Well I only use a laptop in bed or away from home, and having a zillion sites open isn't especially relevant...I get by with 4GB

   Not everybody wants to run the latest video
   games ... so high speed isn't always that
   important. If you can surf adequately and
   play MP4s then you're usually good. With
   Linux, even the old Pentium Core2/Core2Quad
   chips will get you there.
   I think Core2Quad was the last in the line that
   still ran 8/16-bit code native. Still have one
   of those boards and it works. Really NOT that bad.