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   Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-May-2026 21:09:03 JST Infoseepage

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   @strypey A lot of cheaper Android phones have 4 GB of ram and 64 GB of storage, while flagship devices often have 12 GB and pretty much a minimum of 256 GB and up to TB of flash. That's still a lot more constrained than most laptops these days, but not by much and devices like Apples Macbook Neo as well as the economic and availability crunch for ram have really blurred the lines between laptop level performance and phone soc level performance.

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-May-2026 21:09:06 JST Strypey

     "The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory."

     https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/

     My first laptop had 3GB of *storage*. On a spinning magnetic drive. Can't remember how much RAM, 56MB? 128MB? It ran a Windows 9x OS, the Mate desktop I use now is superficially similar.

     Laptop software has got *so* much more bloated and inefficient in that time. Whereas I feel like the limitations of mobile (eg battery life) have forced most people developing for it to work harder for computational efficiency.

     #OldManYellsAtClouds