I had the temerity to suggest in another thread in this forum that the minimum laptop for use in today's computing environment would have an i3/i5 CPU, 8GB RAM and 128GB+ SSD. When I limited the search criteria to laptops $350 USD and under, 4GB laptops comprised about 50% of the market. The sweet spot is obviously at the 8GB point, but those laptops are not at the entry-level price point. In addition, 4GB laptops are being still being sold in relatively high numbers, as this "W10 laptops" breakdown from a major big-box retailer (I don't believe that I should name the company in this forum, but the company has about 1,200 retail outlets in the US and Canada and you would recognize the name instantly if you live in the US and/or Canada) suggests: You are right, of course, but a large installed base of 4GB laptops remain in use, and will for some years. RAM sticks are cheaper than ever, higher RAM usages has its own benefits." I'm hoping that Microsoft will do what it can to reduce RAM use, but I don't think that we will see major 10 years ago the standard RAM capacity in devices like PCs/laptops was 4GB, right now it's 8/16 GB. Several earlier threads have discussed this issue.īecause multi-process architecture is baked into Chromium architecture, I'm not sure that there is a lot that Microsoft can do to remedy the issue. We got used to it, and Edge Chromium's memory-hogging comes as something of a shock. The old version of Edge combines common processes, and those of us who have used it as our primary browser are used to a level of RAM efficiency that just doesn't exist in Edge Chromium or other Chromium-based browsers. On the Latitude, I confine myself to 3-4 tabs, and on the Inspiron, I try to live with one or two tabs open.
On my laptops, which have less RAM (Dell Latitude 7280, 8GB RAM and Dell Inspiron 3185, 4GB RAM), I have learned to be sparing in my use of Edge Chromium, particularly so on the 4GB laptop. If I'm actively browsing (that is, opening and closing sites frequently), I've seem the numbers go higher, although I don't think I've gone over 1GB RAM use.
I routinely run in the 500-750 MB Edge Chromium RAM usage on my desktop (Dell XPS 8920, 16GB RAM) running with 6-8 tabs open and roughly 25-35 processes open. The multi-process architecture was baked into Chromium at the earliest stages of development, and it remains an issue a decade later - Chromium-based browsers are notorious for high RAM use.
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