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hacknat on Nov 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving from Macbook to Linux

IDK, the CPU has never been my bottle neck for work. I know it is for some use cases, but for general software development memory has always been my main bottleneck.

renw0rp on Nov 20, 2020 [–]

I've seen 16GB laptop sticks for 40 quid on Amazon today (OOS now though); I've had 32GB in my 14" EliteBook for a long time now, but paid much more for it. It's probably enough for my needs for some time.

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