In university, they stopped giving out software licenses for personal machines in favor of letting students connect to virtual machines they hosted. They allocated 8GB of RAM which wasn't horrible at the time, but they only allocated 4GB of storage. Only time I've ever seen that ratio.
The software industry show you quickly that 8GB, independent where, isn't by far enough. Since HW programmed obsolence is out, since current PC last more than a Washing machine, they do it with min sys specs of their products. The times, where a 3D FPS was released in a single 96KB file is far away.
Still downloadable as Abandonware https://www.myabandonware.com/game/kkrieger-chapter-1-cl1
Since when was 8GB RAM, let alone 8GB VRAM, a problem? Are you running ML models, video editing or some special games?? Or some weird poorly-written thing like Windows OS?
Nowadays even at 1080p 8GB of Vram doesn't cut it.
Doesn't cut what? Web browsing? Watching videos? Playing new games?
Playing new games at high settings. The card often does have raw performance to handle it but due to lack of VRAM results in terrible framerate or lack of detail
Ah, that makes sense. I rarely-if-ever play heavyweight games.
My 1060 would like a word, at 940*544 so it'll be blurry. But it would like to talk.
Are you running ML models
Yes.
I remember my first 20MB HDD. Imagined it would be impossible to ever fill this gargantuan hog. Well...
I'm young enough that the first "computer" I ever owned in my childhood was the first generation iPad. 64 GB felt huge back then and was a pretty big deal for solid state storage for the time.
I then got a junker Windows XP computer mainly because the iPad didn't let me mess around with the OS nearly as much as I wanted. Learned to program on that old computer using the iPad for online tutorials. But the hard drive was only 40 GB and it blew kid me's mind the difference in size between the single chip of the iPad and the metal brick of the hard drive, yet the hard drive has less storage.
Lol...that is still a thing that amazes me up to today. My watch now has more ram than my first 10 computers had combined with ram and HDD 😁
I remember the OS running from an 5^1/4^" cardboard Floppy
I have 3GB of VRAM. 8 would be great!
ebooks
Linux Mint runs pretty well on 8 gigs of ram on a T460.
I fondly remember having 8 GB of storage, because I could back up my hard drive on like two dollars worth of CD-Rs.
I feared no virus. Reinstalling XP was a monthly affair regardless.
1 tb is a good start for most use case. 5 tb..? now you're getting somewhere.
L1 cache?
Registers
You're talking about register width, right?
Who needs more than 8GB disk space for a Debian computer with Firefox and Chrome?
