What hardware are you using?

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Yeah, 8 GB is almost the minimum for a decently quick system nowadays. 4GB will definitely hinder for more applications than it should at this point.
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For a everyday lightweight system using a lightweight distro 4gb is fine, otherwise agreed 8gb is the minimum.
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Yeah, that's about how I see it. Basic internet/mail/text editing 4 GB is fine, but for anything MORE...yeah, 8 GB is pretty much necessary.

Which is sad when you really think about it. Back in the (late) 90's we were able to do all these things with 1 GB ram and that was a LOT at the time!! Yes, ignoring the early 90's where this was done with 256 MB if you were lucky, because the gui's were...at best...ugly and archaic.
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I miss those days in some respects but system reliability right now for me has been excellent.
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I can't say I miss those days. I was a HARDCORE overclocker back then, so would spend HOURS fiddling with systems trying to get that last 1% of performance from it. I'm much happier just using them nowadays.
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Overclocking was a lot of fun, particularly using lower spec cpus and trying to gain far more performance from them. I spent just as much time ocing videocards and playing with their firmware. Enjoyed those days as today things have gotten a bit sterile. In those days everything was a fresh experience and the improvements felt the same way.
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It was fun at first, but when it became so that EVERYTHING had to be overclocked, it was...almost like an addiction. I still remember fondly some of the overclocks (Celeron A @450 from 300, Original slot-A Athlon @1 Ghz from 850, Radeon 9700 flashed to Pro specs, Radeon 9800 flashed to Pro specs..., etc), but I also remember frying cpu's and boards trying to push them too far and wasting money that I really didn't have at the time.

Also, I NEARLY bought another laptop. Pawn shop up the street has a HP X360 (i5 7200u/8 GB/ 128 SSD). It does indeed have USB-C, but before buying it I tested and it doesn't support Power Delivery (won't charge via USB-C), it's data only. But was a good price. $365, I'm sure I could have gotten it for $300-$315.
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I never fried anything, cpu, video card or mobo but it was fun seeing what you could do and sharing the results with others.
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Never killed gpu's overclocking them, but I definitely killed a few cpu's (at least 1 Celeron and 1 pentium-III) and at least 1 motherboard that pushed the power delivery too hard and had caps explode.
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Caps explode, youre my knda guy!
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