Asus Zenbook 14 Laptop: 14.5" 1800p, i5 13500H, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD

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VarmintCong

Jul 04, 2023 10:25 PM

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Quote from fatbaby

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Well, I got two laptops. One has 32GB, the other 16GB. I asked for a memory upgrade for 16GB laptop to our IT. 16GB is ok for most of the situations. I use multiple stat programs, whiteboard, and Zoom often together. (oh, several chrome tabs too Smilie

) 16GB laptop struggles with this. I don't know where you get the recommendation. But, work can include a lot of different things.

Work laptops tend to need more memory, probably cause they're full of software monitoring you. 8GB in our Zenbook OLED is fine for my kid to use for school and Roblox but I wouldn't pay more than $500 for it. I got an Alienware x14 w/ a 3050 for $620.

psychism

Jul 05, 2023 04:40 AM

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First off, chillax.

Secondly, as i have already said, if it works for you, then great, stick with 8gb. If it doesn't work for other people, then it doesn't work for other people. Why is it that if it works for you, you must on insisting it works for other people? People have different reasons for wanting 16gb+, why can't you accept that? Please stop with this the world only revolves around me culture.

You're clearly not even trying to be serious at this point. You're calling posting buying guides and suggestions from memory manufacturers "the world revolves around me culture" Applause

superslickz

Jul 05, 2023 05:08 AM

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You're clearly not even trying to be serious at this point. You're calling posting buying guides and suggestions from memory manufacturers "the world revolves around me culture" Applause

I could care less about about so called buying guides. They are the equivalent of geek squad at best buy or apple genius bar. You keep going back to that argument makes me take you less seriously as well. Why does it even matter to you if someone wants to have 16gb of memory. I don't get this at all. Just let it go. You are not the memory police. There's plenty of memory to go around.
The "world revolves around me" culture statement refers to you thinking you know what people's memory needs are based on your own needs. You can't fathom how other people's needs doesn't align with yours. It's a common theme on SD.
You think that just because you can easily run 27 tabs with 8gb means that's all a non power user would need. That's laughable.

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psychism

Jul 05, 2023 05:22 AM

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I could care less about about so called buying guides. They are the equivalent of geek squad at best buy or apple genius bar. You keep going back to that argument makes me take you less seriously as well. Why does it even matter to you if someone wants to have 16gb of memory. I don't get this at all. Just let it go. You are not the memory police. There's plenty of memory to go around.

As I said multiple times already. It matters because the first 2 pages of this thread and tons of others are covered in comments of 8gb or even 16gb being terrible deals, not worth buying, totally unusable. That's horribly inaccurate advice for about 90% of users and use case scenarios. 8gb and 16gb of ram are more than most people are ever going to use on a day to day basis. I've stated my use case is I max out 64gb regularly so if I was basing this on my needs I would never suggest 8gb. I've pointed out that your use case does not need 32gb of ram, you literally are just wasting your IT departments time and your companies money then claiming I'm using a "world revolves around me culture" which is fine that's your choice to do so but to claim that you need 32gb to run zoom and some chrome tabs is beyond absurd.

Edit: Sorry responded to wrong usage. It was the other guy who claimed that as his usage. You were the 50 tabs at once guy, which also is fine on 8gb so not really relevant.

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superslickz

Jul 05, 2023 12:51 PM

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As I said multiple times already. It matters because the first 2 pages of this thread and tons of others are covered in comments of 8gb or even 16gb being terrible deals, not worth buying, totally unusable. That's horribly inaccurate advice for about 90% of users and use case scenarios. 8gb and 16gb of ram are more than most people are ever going to use on a day to day basis. I've stated my use case is I max out 64gb regularly so if I was basing this on my needs I would never suggest 8gb. I've pointed out that your use case does not need 32gb of ram, you literally are just wasting your IT departments time and your companies money then claiming I'm using a "world revolves around me culture" which is fine that's your choice to do so but to claim that you need 32gb to run zoom and some chrome tabs is beyond absurd.

Edit: Sorry responded to wrong usage. It was the other guy who claimed that as his usage. You were the 50 tabs at once guy, which also is fine on 8gb so not really relevant.

And I have already proved to you that with my usage of of only multiple tabs on chrome open (less than 50 but still more than 27) that I experienced slowdown and freezing which easily resolved by adding 8gb more memory. Somehow, this real life example is not good enough for you and so now you are claiming I have defective memory. Like seriously? I don't doubt that you can run perfectly fine with 8gb with 27 tabs open on your machine, yet how is it that you cannot fathom that I have issues with 8gb on my use case? Every windows system is different. Not just in hardware, but software, drivers, updates, etc. Then there are the memory usage of each website. You can't just estimate it should take up this amount of memory. You have no idea what website I am talking about.
Like someone else said, it's not that I am against 8gb machines. It has its place and purpose. I just wouldn't pay 600 for it when there are plenty of laptops with 16gb in this range.

psychism

Jul 05, 2023 06:18 PM

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Quote from superslickz

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And I have already proved to you that with my usage of of only multiple tabs on chrome open (less than 50 but still more than 27) that I experienced slowdown and freezing which easily resolved by adding 8gb more memory. Somehow, this real life example is not good enough for you and so now you are claiming I have defective memory. Like seriously? I don't doubt that you can run perfectly fine with 8gb with 27 tabs open on your machine, yet how is it that you cannot fathom that I have issues with 8gb on my use case? Every windows system is different. Not just in hardware, but software, drivers, updates, etc. Then there are the memory usage of each website. You can't just estimate it should take up this amount of memory. You have no idea what website I am talking about.
Like someone else said, it's not that I am against 8gb machines. It has its place and purpose. I just wouldn't pay 600 for it when there are plenty of laptops with 16gb in this range.

You can easily estimate which is why there is estimates all over the place as well as low, standard, and high usage numbers (your computer records all this data as well). We'll ignore that since it doesn't matter. The major red flag in your scenario when troubleshooting is in the usage you are talking about the ram should not be the problem, in that scenario even your cpu is likely to be overtaxed before you run out of ram... So since it should not have been the issue but you say did fix the problem that raises a lot of red flags. If I go to my mechanic with an extra wheel bolted to a low tire he's really going to question how I reached that conclusion when all the other cars on the road are doing fine with fewer tires. If I point out that 18 wheelers need more than 4 it's not going to help. One off weird scenarios and outliers aren't who you use to provide advice, you might say something like "for most people 8gb would be fine, I had a weird problem where X happened and I needed 16gb just to use Chrome"

superslickz

Jul 05, 2023 06:54 PM

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Quote from psychism

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You can easily estimate which is why there is estimates all over the place as well as low, standard, and high usage numbers (your computer records all this data as well). We'll ignore that since it doesn't matter. The major red flag in your scenario when troubleshooting is in the usage you are talking about the ram should not be the problem, in that scenario even your cpu is likely to be overtaxed before you run out of ram... So since it should not have been the issue but you say did fix the problem that raises a lot of red flags. If I go to my mechanic with an extra wheel bolted to a low tire he's really going to question how I reached that conclusion when all the other cars on the road are doing fine with fewer tires. If I point out that 18 wheelers need more than 4 it's not going to help. One off weird scenarios and outliers aren't who you use to provide advice, you might say something like "for most people 8gb would be fine, I had a weird problem where X happened and I needed 16gb just to use Chrome"

Why should it not have been the issue?? Have you ever even opened and used 50-100 tabs? I have heard countless stories of people adding memory to their system and seeing immediate improvement in their system from just web browsing. Sure, you can say most people don't have 50 tabs open, but guess what, there are people who do, and doing so doesn't make them a power user. They should still be within the expected market of this laptop.

And as I said from the very beginning, more memory CAN be helpful. Unlike you, i am not going to tell anyone one way for sure or the other. You on the other hand are SO adamant that it will not be helpful. If your use case doesn't need more than 8gb, good for you, but stop telling people what is fine for you HAS TO BE FINE FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

I am done with this stupid argument. Of all of the stupid unreasonable arguments I have had on SD, this really takes the cake. You must be fun at parties.

cost.basis

Jul 05, 2023 07:27 PM

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do you have the item number?

1649740

arjun90

Jul 15, 2023 11:49 AM

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arjun90Jul 15, 2023 11:49 AM

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8gb is fine for productivity and media consumption, the speakers on this model are horrible. Was forced to install Boom3D

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