Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: pothead Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Memory Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:39:52 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Democrats Are Losers LLC Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:39:53 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8202fd6566994659f3aeab94d05e78df"; logging-data="1569484"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/+HPixnGYZ+9wX2FZJ/7UV" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VMGDJxjj4wmSj/YEQVByWZRfnCU= Bytes: 3338 On 2024-11-17, chrisv wrote: > -hh wrote: > >> vallor wrote: >>> >>> I believe I've had two machines this past decade. The >>> old one I'd built, had 64GB iirc. Current one has 258G. >> >>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? > > 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. > >>> RAM is cheap and handy to have around. >> >>RAM has gotten cheaper (& rarely hurts), but when there's COLA boys who >>are loathe to spend more than $50 for an entire machine, > > Yeah? And some, like vallor, are not. > > Again, asshole, you pretend that Linux users are any different than > are people at large. It's true that some are cheap. But some are > extravagant. 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. Tinse and repeat every 3-4 years or so. -- pothead All about snit read below. Links courtesy of Ron: