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The 1% of people are going to chime in and explain why they need 64gb.
Real gamers max out their systems.
It will make the SSD last longer from unnecessary wear if you are constantly reaching 32GB, since it starts swapping RAM into the SSD.
Also, it will be more future proof.
Believe it or not but leaving open all your programs and tons of tabs in Chrome or Firefox will eat a huge chunk of your available RAM.
If you're not a gamer, you can play around with a bunch of Virtual Machines without worrying about running out of RAM.
And if you edit videos or create movies, you're going to need all the RAM you can get.
EDIT: If RAM is so cheap, doesn't it make sense to just get the largest capacity so you won't have to worry about replacing the ones you already have one day in the future when you find out it is insufficient?
The 1% of people are going to chime in and explain why they need 64gb.
Many people load desktop minis up with VMs or Docker containers. Since the apps don't actually do much processing the system bottleneck is always the RAM.
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64gb is a better value only if you need 64gb which 99% of laptop users do not.
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It will make the SSD last longer from unnecessary wear if you are constantly reaching 32GB, since it starts swapping RAM into the SSD.
Also, it will be more future proof.
Believe it or not but leaving open all your programs and tons of tabs in Chrome or Firefox will eat a huge chunk of your available RAM.
If you're not a gamer, you can play around with a bunch of Virtual Machines without worrying about running out of RAM.
And if you edit videos or create movies, you're going to need all the RAM you can get.
EDIT: If RAM is so cheap, doesn't it make sense to just get the largest capacity so you won't have to worry about replacing the ones you already have one day in the future when you find out it is insufficient?
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Many people load desktop minis up with VMs or Docker containers. Since the apps don't actually do much processing the system bottleneck is always the RAM.
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I put 64gb in my Alienware and even I have to admit it wasn't necessary.