Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

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Last year, Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop rapidly became 1 of my favourite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $900, it was casual to urge to anyone wanting MacBook Air-like physique prime and artillery beingness connected Windows - I adjacent convinced my sister to bargain 1 connected sale.

But that was past year. This year, acknowledgment to RAMageddon, that aforesaid laptop costs $950, and present that terms gets you fractional arsenic overmuch RAM - conscionable 8GB. It's the aforesaid large hardware connected the outside, but it's not the aforesaid laptop connected the inside.

It's been a agelong clip since we tested a Windows laptop with truthful small RAM. We've been saying for years that 8GB isn't enough. But this is Mi …

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