The first hard drive I used was a whole 5MB.
The OS (a variant of CP/M) couldn’t really deal with it though, so it was partitioned as an awful lot of floppies.
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Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
Common ig has a Celeron!
It always baffles me when like the old hard drive fit in the RAM of am average today PC. What will it be in 10-20 years, 2TB RAM in an average PC?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, I remember when everyone on planet Earth said “8 GB is all you need.” Anymore, 8 GB is pretty low spec. I had to upgrade an old laptop (from 2016) from 6 GB to 16 because the CPU is just fine for what I do with the laptop (surf yt, check email) but the lack of RAM was making it hang up because it kept having to dump stuff into and out of swap.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I recently upgraded from 8. I wish I’d just gotten 16 years ago, but I got 32 for what I paid for the 8. Turns out my games weren’t bad, my pc was
bassomitron@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah the shift from 8GB being the recommended to 16GB happened pretty suddenly around 2018ish. That being said, I recommend people get 32GB now since it’s a relatively minor increase in cost and there are lots of apps that just suck butt at optimization, so it provides a comfortable buffer.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 months ago
My first PC had a 170 MB (!) hard disk and 4 MB RAM. After an upgrade to 8 MB it could (barely) run Windows 95.
pop@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
Moore’s law will speeddown and then die, tech advancement per space will stagnate. Also, no home PC needs 2 TB of RAM.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
640K should be enough for anybody.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
I’m reading the other comments, and wondering why do people need to be binary like that? Yes, diminishing returns are a thing, so we shouldn’t expect the same degree of improvements, but stating hard limits is also something that usually gets laughed several years later.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
We old-timers have heard that exact argument for like forever. Didn’t happen.
Even Intels chief engineer thought that after 3um there would be impossible to reach 1um.
1um = 1000nm BTW and we’re at like 3nm
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Chrome will still eat half of it.
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 8 months ago
All of it.