alt Hacker NewsNot being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022.
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I used outlook on the browser when needed and slack was open most of the time
I also had around 200 tabs open on the regular
Now I wouldn’t tell you it was a good experience because it wasn’t. But it was usable even pushing the hardware to the max.
Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for years.
Do you actually have a problem with Slack and Outlook open at the same time on an Apple Silicon Mac with 8GB of memory? Or are you assuming?
Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.
> Not being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022.
I read this as how bad software quality has gone down, that a mail program and a chat program don't fit in 8GB of RAM.
I’m freaking out the equivalent of mutt and irc require more than 8GB of RAM to run simultaneously.
What are modern operating systems and applications doing?