I had a 3B+ and adjusted my behaviour to it. With a SSD and the right amount of swap it was useable as a desktop but fairly easy to descend into swapping hell. Then the 4B with 4GB came out and I could open more tabs... life was good. Then the 8GB model came out and life was better. The 5 8GB model brought more speed and I often have 20+ tabs open in Chromium when researching stuff, on top of the stuff than just is always open. At around 25-30 tabs it hits a wall and stalls. If a 16GB model allows me to not have to close stuff I would happily pay the entry fee. Still will likely cost less than any of the peripherals I have connected to it.I suspect the major use case for a 16GB Pi5 is "Mine is Bigger than Yours".Its web browsers that are the hogs. I do find 8GB perfectly adequate for everything I've ever done on a Pi 5 but I am sure there will be plenty of use cases for 16GB.
As it is, the major use I have for Pi (running registration for a mid-sized regional gaming convention) works just fine on 4GB versions, and even there, everything sort of rattles around loose. I should note that that system runs a full LAMP stack, plus some code I wrote.
I certainly acknowledge that I could adjust my usage to live within 8GB or even 4 GB. However I will happily pay the RAM surcharge to get better browser performance (aka more windows open), as I don't think browsers are ever going to become less RAM hungry.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:54 pm