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RobAtticus · 2013-02-06 22:07:37+00:00

I believe his point is that memory manufacturers advertised 1GB of RAM which is actually 1GiB. So for advertised memory, 1GB = 1024MB.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2016-01-03 04:23:27

1G is not a lot of RAM?

phonon | karma 3760 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2016-09-08 14:26:10+00:00

"1 GB RAM"

mdaniel | karma 5981 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2022-12-17 12:56:26

> Large RAM Capacity

> Pro: 16GB 64-bit 2112MHz LPDDR4X

I do not think that word means what you think it does. I'm also flabbergasted in a world where a 64GB DDR4-2666 is $200 why anyone would say "16 GB is enough for anyone". Or, here's a fun thought: stop soldering RAM on the MB and let me upgrade on my own dime

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I went to their YT channel, and it wasn't terribly helpful, but one of the recommended videos seems handy, including showing how small it really is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1wtxr3XJQQ

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Recursing | karma 779 | avg karma 3.88 · | 2017-12-06 02:51:37

Only 1GB RAM? Really?

account42 | karma 5969 | avg karma 0.98 · | 2019-12-20 10:27:32+00:00

> memory from 8 Gb to 16 Gb

2 GiB total is not a lot

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krakensden | karma 3890 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2014-01-21 17:51:47+00:00

1GB? that seems... awful small.

netsharc | karma 7894 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2020-06-03 22:00:38

Huh, my 1st computer hat 640KB of RAM (does it count as a computer?), the 3rd one had either 4 or 8 MB. My current one has 16GB, so you're right, that is actually 2048 (or 4096) times more...

evanjrowley | karma 559 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2024-01-12 19:50:03

>16GB RAM to read and write text and see images... I think it just says it all.

More could be said about the bloatware, telemetry, surveillance, and adtech built into Windows.

Hard to imagine that 1GB was "a big deal" in my lifetime.

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evv | karma 1887 | avg karma 3.35 · | 2014-10-16 16:36:33+00:00

Is RAM not a worthy technical specification to list? I think its pretty critical.

Until somebody corrects me I'll just assume this thing has the 1GB of RAM which is pretty standard these days.. But not enough IMHO

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Robby2012 | karma 90 | avg karma 0.87 · | 2013-09-30 08:32:37+00:00

It doesn't say 6GB of RAM, it says 6Gb which is not the same, one stands for Gigabits and the other for Gigabytes;

1 Gigabyte = 8 Gigabits // 6 Gbits = 768 Megabytes

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kasperni | karma 3980 | avg karma 7.25 · | 2021-04-27 08:29:38

I think he meant 16GB.

adamdecaf | karma 248 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2011-06-17 12:26:04

In the video they mentioned "2gb" of ram.

yrral | karma 715 | avg karma 6.01 · | 2011-01-19 06:11:37+00:00

The argument about RAM is just plain wrong. It only takes 12 megabytes 2048 * 1536 * (32 bits per pixel) = 12 megabytes to store the display. 24 megabytes if it needs to double-buffer.

xxs | karma 3320 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2021-02-24 10:31:59+00:00

Of course, that's the point. If you cannot have enough memory, you don't buy them. Even the old haswell (2013) Acer laptop has 16GB; the skylake lenovo laptop I use for work has 32GB.

Hillary_Pe | karma 9 | avg karma 9.0 · | 2013-09-17 22:29:58

Only 1GB RAM?! bah humbug

one87 | karma 16 | avg karma 0.76 · | 2017-12-11 16:43:28+00:00

1GB memory min. That's heavy :/

theandrewbailey | karma 10214 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2021-03-01 15:56:58+00:00

That's 256 megabytes of RAM, not kilobytes.

cameldrv | karma 7888 | avg karma 3.97 · | 2019-10-03 20:15:43

That's true but nobody bought a PC with 16K of RAM. The smallest I ever saw on a PC was 256k, and I think I might have encountered a near-clone with 128k.

nojvek | karma 7050 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2023-11-16 16:38:19

Surely 1MB/user for the whole year is more than enough.

It’s in the realm of “64KB of RAM should be more than enough for any computer”

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