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		lupire on April 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software developm... Client memory usage has plateaued, now that everything is a web/cloud app.

jlokier on April 20, 2022 | [–]

Storage maybe, RAM less clear. Some web apps use more RAM (in the browser) compared with the equivalent native app, and on a laptop people like to run multiple apps at the same time, whether web or native.

seanw444 on April 20, 2022 | [–]

I'd argue that it continues to increase, because everything is a web app packaged into a Chromium instance.

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