• Wolfwood1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you thought the 12 to 16GB of RAM offered with most flagship Android devices today is enough

    You’re wrong, I thought 6 to 8GB of RAM were enough. I’m still rocking my OnePlus 5, and seeing their last few years I don’t think I’ll get another OnePlus smartphone.

    If you need more RAM on a smartphone than on a laptop, you’re doing something wrong. You can’t solve everything by just adding more RAM

  • Airehiso@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is just “big numbers better.” I can run a lot of apps on 16Gb RAM in pc, why would a small one can’t?

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    1 year ago

    Is there any actual benefit for so much RAM in a phone? Outside of a higher number for marketing and increasing the price? And does this also increase power consumption or is there any benefit to more RAM that counteracts that?

    Personally i am still waiting for phones to become proper desktop replacements, in which case i’d maybe see more use in this. They already have more than enough performance for the average user, since 9/10 people probably just browse the web and do some general office work.

    • copium@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Pretty much what I think, it’s just bad marketing.
      No one need 24gb of ram on a smartphone and only very few on computer.