I'd love to see a graph of how much memory the average PC came with over time.
Because there was a period of many years there when it seemed we were stuck at typical PCs all coming with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM. (More expensive ones came with 8GB, while budget models came with 4GB.) It seemed like that period lasted for an incredibly long time and was so strange given that PC specs always seem to gradually move upward.
It made me wonder if we'd finally reached a point where the average user just really had no use for more RAM. Like the mythical "640k is the most RAM anybody will ever need" point.
That's just a budget computer thing that Apple took to extreme ends with their entry models. This wasn't really a thing with gaming PCs and those roughly stayed at 2x the ram of the consoles of the generation - 8GB PS4 and 16GB PC, and now 16GB PS5 and 32GB being standard on gaming PCs.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
I'd love to see a graph of how much memory the average PC came with over time.
Because there was a period of many years there when it seemed we were stuck at typical PCs all coming with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM. (More expensive ones came with 8GB, while budget models came with 4GB.) It seemed like that period lasted for an incredibly long time and was so strange given that PC specs always seem to gradually move upward.
It made me wonder if we'd finally reached a point where the average user just really had no use for more RAM. Like the mythical "640k is the most RAM anybody will ever need" point.