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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Even on an 8gb or 16gb system Windows uses over 4gb on a fresh boot. At 4gb it's going to be swapping to fish non-stop. The disk will be thrashed and be dead in a year of use.