19 Feb
2024
19 Feb
'24
7:32 a.m.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. Dead deal: <https://forums.redflagdeals.com/costco-ca-hot-299-99-hp-15-6-touchscreen-laptop-intel-core-i3-1215u-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-2673529/>
Unlike most laptops these days, it has two sockets for RAM. Only one was occupied. It had an 8 GiB stick of RAM.
Hugh, I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson