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Is 8gb RAM not enough now?

Anonymous
2023-06-16T10:11:43+00:00

Hello,

I just bought a new laptop with a built-in 8gb RAM and windows 11. Right at the store, I had technicians install 1 more 8gb RAM. I came home happily knowing that I would have a bunch of RAM to spare and have to worry about lack of RAM no more.
When I start the laptop for the first time, without any external apps installed, I noticed that the system alone using about 7gb RAM. I was so surprised and wondered: What if I didn't install more RAM? Is the built-in 8gb RAM a miscalculation from manufacturers? And I still have no idea till now.
Now with needed apps installed and used, the RAM usage is usually about 10-11gb RAM, sometimes it reaches 12-13gb. When I turn off all of the features and apps, it still remains at about 50% RAM usage, which means 8gb RAM???
Can somebody explain to me? Is it mandatory to have extra RAM installed now? If so, why manufacturers still only give 8gb RAM at the beginning and state nothing?

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-10-28T08:27:28+00:00

    I got a surface tablet as a portable computer, I want it as a second PC for casual browsing email reply or note taking, but I immediately regret it and hope I would have gotten a better machine, with at least 16GB ram and 256GB memory, but with double price it was out of budget. As I got it on massive discount and I was contempulating getting Surface Go 2, this is a massive upgrade.

    Something about windows make these are the bare minimum spec to be workable.

    Again, don't take me wrong it is not absolutely horrific, but even for a Surface pro-8, i5 and what its process can do, RAM becomes a choke point, and you will feel here to there is a sluggishness in day-to-day activities.

    For Activities light Video or photo editing, it will say straight out no.

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  2. DaveM121 871K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-06-16T10:44:34+00:00

    Hi Tạ Duy Khang,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    The amount of RAM used may depend on your hardware, Windows may set aside RAM for your hardware.

    Close all open applications

    Open Task Manager

    1

    Select the Performance Tab and click Memory on the left.

    Please provide a screenshot of that window

    2

    Select the Processes Tab and click the Memory column header so the arrow on that column header points down

    Please provide a screenshot of that window

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-19T01:50:06+00:00

    Dear Dave,

    This is your requested screenshots. I had closed all of the possible running apps when I snapped this. Please have a look.

    Thank you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-14T19:59:38+00:00

    we are seeing more of this as well with our 8 gig systems our ram usage without anything running top three same as yours

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-07T03:34:15+00:00

    A good chunk of this could be due to the integrated Intel UHD graphics. It doesn't have any VRAM but instead shared RAM with the system.

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