The M3 Pro MacBook Pro with 18GB of RAM is a sparkling $300 off right now
The Apple MacBook Pro is one of the best laptops Apple has ever made and easily one of the best on the market today, so we’re happy to see it go down to $1,699 at…
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Why mixing your PC’s RAM is a recipe for disaster
When the opportunity arises, upgrading your RAM is a great way to boost your PC’s performance. But RAM can be quite a headache to work out sometimes. That’s because it comes in varying generations, brands,…
This Windows 11 RAM change will make pedantic PC nerds less aggro
If you want to anger a PC hardware nerd, just use the incorrect nomenclature when referring to the clock–err–transfer rate of a computer’s RAM subsystem. Example: If a PC has 32GB of DDR5/4800 and you…
Meet LPCAMM2, the fast and efficient new laptop RAM of the future
MacBook buyers still fuming from Apple’s decision to sell expensive laptops with just 8GB of RAM wish they had what Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P1 has: The ability to offer fast and power efficient RAM that…
Whoa! Get a Dell Inspiron laptop with 16GB of RAM for $360
I find it really hard to recommend any Windows-powered machine these days with less than 16GB of memory. Windows 11, not to mention essentials like Chrome and other browsers, just chug on anything less. So…
This ThinkPad laptop with 16GB of RAM is just $365
Windows is getting pretty heavy in terms of memory, to say nothing of frequently-used applications like Chrome. That’s why it’s hard for us to recommend any new Windows machine, even a deal, with just 8GB…
How much RAM does my laptop need? 4GB vs. 8GB vs. 16GB, etc.
Determining the specs for a new laptop (or a laptop upgrade) can be a delicate balancing act. You want to spend enough so you won’t be miserable in the future, but not so much that…
Get a Surface Laptop with 16GB of RAM for $500
Microsoft’s Surface series has become something of the standard-bearer for Windows laptops…and boy, don’t they know it. While the hardware is generally well-received, its pricing is not, running a few hundred bucks above even the…
How to clear RAM on a Mac: tips to free up memory
Is your Mac running painfully slowly? Has an application just hung? Did you see a “Your system has run out of application memory” message or the dreaded spinning beach ball? All of these can be…
DDR6 RAM: The next-gen memory standard, explained
The DDR5 memory standard, which was officially finalized in July 2020 with AMD Ryzen 7000 (“Raphael”) and Intel Core 13000 (“Alder Lake”), only really started to slowly replace its DDR4 predecessor in the desktop over…