I'm not saying 16 gb ram is not enough. I'm saying IMO it's the BARE MINIMUM in today's Windows. With every new version of windows as features are added, the amount of ram the OS itself uses increases. We don't know where Windows is going to go in the future. One can not say "I have 16 gb and it's plenty". It may well be plenty for the way one uses his system but not enough for the way the next guy computes.
It's been proven that additional ram is the cheapest, most beneficial upgrade one can make. Once a system's ram starts to max out,the cpu has to work harder. Not only is performance affected, more heat is generated.. It's easy to say, too, that "Oh well, you can always add more ram if you need it". While that is true, many times it can easily cost a lot more to do it later on depending on the original ram configuration. To shortchange a $1000++ laptop makes no sense to me.
I have most auto starting background apps disabled. Right now I have ONE browser tab open to this site and nothing else. I'm using 7.8 gb of ram. I can open another tab and watch a youtube video. Ram usage jumps up to 8.2 gb. I decide to read my email in Outlook and up it goes to 8.5. For every active tab I open, ram usage increases by .3-.5 gb.
As with everything else, especially on this forum, we all have our opinions and this is mine. But I'm a firm believer in "You do you."
