Comeback of laptops with 4 GB RAM: Acer hints at drastic cost-cutting measures

[Redaktion]

Now that the Apple MacBook Neo has made 8 GB RAM socially acceptable again, Windows laptops with 4 GB RAM could make a comeback. Because the Snapdragon C lowers the bar for price and performance, Acer is already pointing to models with the minimum possible specs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Comeback-of-laptops-with-4-GB-RAM-Acer-hints-at-drastic-cost-cutting-measures.1309481.0.html

[Bad idea]

Better pick an android tablet with a keyboard case, it'll cost around 200€ and you'll be able to do better than a W11 laptop with 4Go RAM

[SJB]

Nooo!!

A foolish idea to drop to 4GB of RAM. While I agree windows can struggle by with 4GB of RAM as it can with a 2 core, 4 threaded processor and boot off an 64GB eMMC storage chip - as soon as windows doggedly tries to update along with a background virus scan, it'll seriously struggles to do that, let alone do anything else for a good hour and a big plus later until completed as it deals with the impact of crippled resources.

While I accept I might be wrong, but windows has a poor track record of running well on underpowered ARM chips which is likely to be the case to meet the price point.