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| 1465564 | 2019-12-11 05:46:00 | A friend of mine is looking at a new PC and has been quoted for one with 8GB RAM, which I would have thought was adequate for normal use. Her reaction though was "8GB? - my phone has more than that!" I found myself struggling to tell her whether she had a point or was mistaken as to the different memory requirements between phones and PCs. Any suggestions? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1465565 | 2019-12-11 05:58:00 | Most likely getting confused between RAM and SSD on the PC. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1465566 | 2019-12-11 06:09:00 | Most phones are around 4-8GB RAM. Windows 10, 8GB for a general usage is fine, 8GB is W10's "sweet spot". If you had a W10, lets say 8GB memory, i3-i5 CPU, throw in a SSD and it will run very nice. Even one of my old Celeron laptop with 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD & W10 with all the "not Needed" things running in the background hums along quite well. NOTE: Phones usually have "RAM" as the, well RAM, while the term Memory is used as storage. As shown in this phone advert: 10124 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1465567 | 2019-12-11 06:33:00 | They’re confusing storage with processing memory. | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1465568 | 2019-12-11 07:01:00 | They’re confusing storage with processing memory. ^ | Yeah, this. One is the fast, but volatile 'run time' memory for an app to temporarily occupy. (RAM on a PC) The other is non volatile storage space. (HDD on a PC) A phone may have a few GB of storage space. A decent computer has typically 500 times more storage space - terabytes vs gigabytes. The internal equivalent of RAM in a phone often goes without comment or consideration, and will be tiny compared to a PC. If your friend wants a phone with 16GB of RAM, then it'll likely look like a brick, not a phone as we know them. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1465569 | 2019-12-11 07:34:00 | ^ | If your friend wants a phone with 16GB of RAM, then it'll likely look like a brick, not a phone as we know them. They are getting close :) 10126 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1465570 | 2019-12-11 08:23:00 | As people here have said after I thought about it I decided she was probably confusing/unaware of the difference in a phone between actual RAM and storage, either on board or on an SD card. I'll talk to her tomorrow. Presumably I can point her somewhere in settings to see what she actually has on the phone. Thanks for the responses. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1465571 | 2019-12-11 13:58:00 | I've had 16gb ram in my PC for the last 2 or 3 years. If ram is cheap...why not. Quite likely overkill now I have Linux, but WTH. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1465572 | 2019-12-11 18:21:00 | I've had 16gb ram in my PC for the last 2 or 3 years. If ram is cheap...why not. Quite likely overkill now I have Linux, but WTH. I agree that more is better, but for most purposes 8GB seems enough. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1465573 | 2019-12-11 19:07:00 | We were right - she was confusing the types of storage. Thanks again everybody. |
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