<story><title>Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robgough</author><text>Obviously if you&apos;re working with massive datasets or many many VM&apos;s this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it&apos;s more than enough. I&apos;ve got 8GB, and haven&apos;t any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they&apos;d have been perfectly happy with only 16GB.&lt;p&gt;An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote &quot;essential&quot;, though I guess it&apos;s not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>For years, the things I have cared about in terms of computing have been, roughly:&lt;p&gt;1) Internet connectivity.  Without it I&apos;m mostly dead in the water.&lt;p&gt;2) Screen resolution.  I want as much code/information on the screen as possible.  I currently have a 1920x1200 Dell myself, and am I bit scared/saddened that I won&apos;t be able to replace it.&lt;p&gt;3) Memory.  Always good.&lt;p&gt;After that come processor speed and storage space.  I suspect my next machine will have SSD, because I&apos;ve heard that it&apos;s such a dramatic improvement.&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with Linus though - I &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; much want a high resolution laptop screen.</text></item><item><author>staunch</author><text>I&apos;m so damn happy people are starting to realize how awesome resolution is. I&apos;ve been buying 1920x1200 15&quot; Dell laptops for 10 years now, and never bought a Mac because they&apos;ve always had terrible resolution. I run Linux anyway, but I&apos;m going buy Mac hardware next, unless a PC maker creates a competitive display (which I assume they will).&lt;p&gt;Next up: IPS LCDs &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>RAM is so cheap today, I just maxed it out on my laptop. Granted, I have seen only probably 22GB out of 32GB used when I had YACY (P2P search network written in Java) running, but I still expect having system use rest of RAM for caches which in theory should speedup access to file system (on my SSD drive)</text></comment>
<story><title>Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robgough</author><text>Obviously if you&apos;re working with massive datasets or many many VM&apos;s this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it&apos;s more than enough. I&apos;ve got 8GB, and haven&apos;t any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they&apos;d have been perfectly happy with only 16GB.&lt;p&gt;An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote &quot;essential&quot;, though I guess it&apos;s not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>For years, the things I have cared about in terms of computing have been, roughly:&lt;p&gt;1) Internet connectivity.  Without it I&apos;m mostly dead in the water.&lt;p&gt;2) Screen resolution.  I want as much code/information on the screen as possible.  I currently have a 1920x1200 Dell myself, and am I bit scared/saddened that I won&apos;t be able to replace it.&lt;p&gt;3) Memory.  Always good.&lt;p&gt;After that come processor speed and storage space.  I suspect my next machine will have SSD, because I&apos;ve heard that it&apos;s such a dramatic improvement.&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with Linus though - I &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; much want a high resolution laptop screen.</text></item><item><author>staunch</author><text>I&apos;m so damn happy people are starting to realize how awesome resolution is. I&apos;ve been buying 1920x1200 15&quot; Dell laptops for 10 years now, and never bought a Mac because they&apos;ve always had terrible resolution. I run Linux anyway, but I&apos;m going buy Mac hardware next, unless a PC maker creates a competitive display (which I assume they will).&lt;p&gt;Next up: IPS LCDs &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Hell, I had 2 GB RAM before and it seemed ok, 8 GB now is more than I need. I had to send the SSD for replacement, though, and it was easily the most frustrating week in recent memory.</text></comment>