Is 2gib of ram the perfect comfy amount for work and everyday use?
Is it too much? I dont like falling for memes.
I would personally go for 4 but it all depends on what you need to do.
>>55633344
2 GB might be ok if you run a 32-bit OS and only run older software that wasn't as RAM heavy. You definitely want an OS that supports RAM compression. And use an SSD so if you hit the page file, it isn't extremely painful.
Ram is cheap, you can afford 4 gib
>>55633344
>implying that burger is healther than ja/ck's
>>55633344
does your work involve browsing the web? if so, 4GB minimum, 8GB if you want your OS to cache and be fast at multitasking
>>55633344
kys
>work and everyday use
That means nothing. I'd say 2GB is the bare minimum for the os and 1-2 webpages at once. Get at least 4GB if you're that cheap.
>>55633344
Depends on what you're doing.
I am currently in the process of writing an e-mail to a collaborator explaining that the thing they were trying (and failing) to do on their dinky 32GB-of-RAM workstation actually requires something at least on the order of ~256GB.
>>55633344
2 gib is a little too much
512mib is what I recommend, every one else here are just retards
>>55633507
What are they doing?
>>55633502
what kind of JS-encrusted abominations do you browse? I can handle that with 128 MB, I regularly do 5-10 on 512 /with/ JS on
>>55633533
This
I use tails and have no issue
>>55633502
2 GB RAM sticks cost almost as much as 4 GB these days. Not even kidding, look it up. The manufacture cost isn't even worth it.
>>55633410
you're a big guy
>>55633548
nytimes dat cawm.
>>55633568
The page fault count rises.
>>55633344
Literally can't even OPEN a browser on 2gb, let alone browse anything.
0/10, see me after class.
>>55633597
WTF crackhead bloated OS and browser are you running? I've got netbooks with 2 GB RAM and they run fine.
>>55633597
> Using a shit browser
Are you retarded?
>>55633623
Yeah, "fine". it merely takes 5 minutes to open notepad and it merely stops responding if more than 3 programs are open at once. Also there are spikes where it stops responding every so often either way.
"fine".
>>55633537
De novo assembly of some fungal genomes.
Basically I was told they tried running it on their laptop but it failed. At first they thought it was because of the memory requirements so they tried it on their 32GB machine, but they got the same problem there, so the problem is probably something else and could I please help?
Now I feel like in that pic >>55633507 as I type my reply.
>>55633344
She has more makeup on her than a clown, doesn't look very healthy.
>>55633641
So they're mapping out genomes?
Thats preocessor intensive
>>55633636
"""malware"""
>>55633344
anything above 512MB is meme
>>55633681
512KB*
FTFY
>>55633636
But all of that is demonstrably false, barring extraneous circumstances like you having a bloated environment due to severe retardation.
>>55633597
You can run a copy of Windows 7 and Chrome with 5-6 tabs open on 1GB of RAM just fine. Make a virtual machine and try it out if you don't believe me.
>>55633704
I did and it didn't work. Retard.
I had one of those soy veggie burgers once
My biggest regret
>>55633664
that looks more like a pixelated image and you're still autistic
>>55633597
>>55633715
>>55633715
I did and it did work. No idea what you're on about.
>>55633666
They're assembling genomes. It's primarily memory-intensive as the algorithms used for assembling short reads (which are the current standard and what they have) depend on enormous De Bruijin graphs.
Overlap-graph-based algorithms are more computationally intensive and less memory intensive, but are only really usable for long reads that were in use a decade ago and are slowly re-emerging right now as the PacBio platform proliferates and becomes cheaper.
Still, short-reads and memory-intensive algorithms are currently king.
>>55633344
2 GiB is the bare minimum to run GUI stuff these days.
>>55633756
I'm sure it did for you shlomo.
Is there any reason not to go for 4GB? They cost almost exactly the same.
>>55633762
*De Bruijn
8gb is pretty much the standard nowadays if you're not fucking around
if you had 4gb i wouldn't really gaf but 2?
2?
No.
4.
>>55633762
Couldn't you just use a PCI SSD or something as a gigantic swap file?
I remember how powerful I felt when I upgraded from 16MB to 32MB.
>>55633849
Way too slow
>>55633818
If you're building a new computer, not really. You might as well get 8 gigs too for like 15 bucks more.
>>55633849
It might be feasible but would be much slower.
I just use my 1TB machine and will be upgrading to 2TB later this year.
thinking of getting a new laptop soon
if I want to run windows in virtualbox what are the minimum specs I need? Will a cheap ass $150 celeron from walmart be enough?
I use my desktop for real shit but want a computer for taking outside and such.
32GB is the absolute bare minimum these days, if you got anything less, you're retarded and wont even be able to run LXDE. I have 64GB, but I should probably upgrade to 128GB.
>>55633895
windows in virtualbox on ubuntu
>>55633878
In canuckistan, 4 GB = 20, 8 GB = 50. Generally speaking.
>>55633636
Don't bother trying to run on 1-2 GB RAM if you're too stupid to reduce bloat/clutter.
>>55633895
Will work. How well it works depends on how much RAM you'll spare for the VM.
>>55633862
what year was this
If you're too poor to get 16, just kill yourself already.
>>55633597
>>55633715
whatever you say, lads
>>55634075
Nice try retard, nice try >>55634028
>>55634094
I had hidden the /a/ window there
>>55634028
>>55634075
Griffith did nothing wrong.
>>55633344
Anything less than 16 is pathetic.
>>55633426
>medium rare
>not superior well done
Why even clock it at all americucks?
>>55633344
I'm running a 64bit manjaro install on 2gb and it's functional but not ideal
>>55634014
Not him but probably 1997
Do they even make 2GB sticks of DDR4?
Why would you not have 16 gib?
8 GB of ram costs less than 40 dollars
Why do people who unnecessarily crutch themselves exist
You will literally save 10 dollars by getting less ram, all the while limiting multitasking to 2 notepad files and a web browser
JUST why
>>55634255
that's not medium rare, it's raw
>>55634874
>>55634014
Yeah it was late 1997.
I was 10 years old.
You can get 8gb for fucking $30. Why get less?
>>55633893
>I just use my 1TB machine and will be upgrading to 2TB later this year.
how many tabs can you open in firefox?
>>55633344
I use 2GiB for my chromebook with ubuntu, and it's pretty alright even using pycharm
>>55633344
wtf are this threads, just causal shitposting or do i miss something?
>>55633920
but 2*4 = 8
buy two sticks of 4Gb, you get 8 for 20
>>55633344
2 is too little to be truly comfortable now, particularly since web pages and browsers became retardedly fat sometime after Firefox started its rapid versioning scheme.
although, if all you do is browse 4chan, this site is actually surprisingly light, unless you're browsing a gigantic 1000+ post rolling sticky, and you could do shitposting, music listening, and a bit of coding even on a 1GB machine
4GB is good in general, and RAM is cheap enough that it won't tickle your wallet. It'll satisfy most people's use of the machine completely.
I had 6GB RAM on another machine, but I didn't really have situations where I'd need it other than if I wanted to allocate like 2-3GB RAM to a VM, eventually I swapped the 4GB stick out to add more RAM to a slower one with only 2GB, making them both have 4GB.
>>55633533
>512mib is what I recommend
from like 2001 to 2008, I pretty much stood by this
and then my old PIII laptop died, and I discovered the joys of having more RAM
I made that poor machine choke though, I'd have like 30+ tabs open and it'd be downloading something and I even had a tiny Linux VM (it was tiny because I had like no disk space left, shit only had a 10GB HDD) running
>>55633558
best girl
>>55633344
what do you mean by comfy? the comfiest amount of ram, for me, is the largest amount of ram you can get. you know what's comfy? not having to wait for a window to render while your OS is fetching pages from the hard drive or having to close tabs because your browser is getting slow
>>55638490
This, I have a 2gb netbook which runs, but if I go overboard it will hit the limit and crash firefox, it's also limited to 32bit because lol intel atoms.
The coreM 4gb ram thingie I have is far more bearable, pity about the inverse battery life on these two machines.
>>55633344
8GB is barely enough for me.
