How does it do for performance if you throw the whole 43GB into RAM? Plenty of very affordable workstation systems out there today gently used with 128GB in them.
I'm going to upvote this comment because not everyone in the world can afford $300 for 64GB+ of RAM. The solution to not dump everything into RAM is a great one.
Fortunately, I've had a fancy Silicon Valley job for 15+ years which now lets me afford many GBs of RAM if I wanted to but it was a different story in my 20s. I relied on free or almost free hardware to learn. And that free hardware usually lagged in specs.
Yeah I agree with you not everyone can afford it, but lots of young people build $1800 gaming PCs. If you want a powerful Linux workstation desktop PC for fun projects like this you can get a Dell t5610 with two 8 core xeons and 128GB of ram on eBay for $650, then add your own $100 SSD.
I would not recommend running out and buying a new current gen Ryzen board+cpu or core i7-whatever and 128GB of new ram at ddr4-4200 prices.
To put it in perspective, 43GB of RAM to browse the entirety of Wikipedia doesn't sound that ridiculous when popular Electron-based IM programs use 1GB+.
It's around £300 for 64GB of Corsair RAM - you need a motherboard that supports it but you can go cheap and you don't need a great processor. You could probably put this together for £600? It's not exactly crazy if this was for an office or something.
I do. Many others too. Or do you see books written on phones, programing being done on phones? Being able to install any program you like? No? Not first class then.
There are many things that can't be done on a phone that are possible on a PC. The reverse case is much harder.
The fact that you can't even add memory (be it RAM or storage, the later one is of course doable on some devices) to your phone makes them not first class devices.
That's only a size of regular modern video game... the downloads of which are pretty mainstream these days. Saying that a 50 gig download is a barrier "for most" is definitely not true.
For English it states 90 GB uncompressed, doesn't say compressed size but that doesn't sound much larger than a large game. In the context I don't see it as a barrier.
As someone who was very recently on about as bad of a dsl connection you could get... What? Outside of metered cellular connections this is available to basically everyone. Even the remotest parts of Africa have at least a handful of unmetered connections within a days drive and a USB drive.
Gears of War 5 on the Xbox is 133GB with all its updates. I think we're at the point where 100GB is a high but reasonable request for people nowadays, at least in cities in the West.
