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RantMemory usage on smartphones ... Pin
Rage25-Aug-20 23:06
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... well, on android smartphones, is getting out of hands ! I think that you need at least decent 32Gb for the OS to run stable with Chrome as a browser, and even 64Gb if you want it to last a bit. My current smartphone is running really well, but has "only" 16Gb memory. 13,8Gb are eaten by Android itself (7Gb) and other mandatory apps from the Google ecosystem which I have no use of (about 7Gb as well). The remaining 2,2Gb are barely sufficient to allow the smartphone to run properly, since android heavily relies on swapping to run.
A google play update usually takes up additional 100 to 200Mb, and that happens every other month. At that pace, I can throw away my smartphone in about 4 months due to lack of ROM. Unsure | :~ (And yes, I moved everything movable to a SD card).
I wonder how it is possible that there are still smartphones sold with 8Gb or 16Gb memory, knowing that this is not sufficient to even use the bare smartphone after a few months... And the fact that everything relies on built-in memory instead of SD is just insane.

Now that I think about it, it is actually similar to a laptop I bought for my son last year with a 128Gb SSD with the OS and a 1Tb disk for data. Windows takes up 123Gb (!!!) by now on the SSD drive, and since some programs insist on putting at least minimum installation files under program files on that same disk, I am now more or less forced to upgrade this disk to a 500Gb SSD. Sigh | :sigh:

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