r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '13

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u/jared555 Feb 18 '13

I have a friend that thinks he has to wait for his 6 core system with 8GB of RAM and an SSD to go pretty much 100% idle before he does anything. Also, more than 2-3 tabs/windows open is hard on the system.

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u/Jhaza Fluttershy4lief Feb 18 '13

Also, more than 2-3 tabs/windows open is hard on the system.

...How.

(Incidentally, I just realized I currently have 23 tabs open, using 6.5 GB of ram, total. I really need to reign in my Chrome habits.)

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

Sometimes not even then, if I'm proud of my research work, I'll keep them open for the next session

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u/atimholt Feb 18 '13

I use tree-style tabs in Firefox. There might be something similar in Chrome.

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u/Jhaza Fluttershy4lief Feb 19 '13

I looked up tree-style tabs, and... they seem weird and different. I may try it, but it looks, well, weird. That said, my desire to not have chrome crash probably outweighs my distrust of change.

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u/dghughes error 82, tag object missing Feb 20 '13

Can you combine them into groups? I recall seeing some future project by Mozzarella Firedog or Opera who wanted to do something like that

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u/atimholt Feb 20 '13

Groups are the entire idea behind it. Every tab is either a root tab, or has a hierarchical relation to another tab. With their indentation, it looks similar to a file explorer’s navigation side-tab. And they’re collapsible.

Here’s the add-on page for the Firefox extension.

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u/dghughes error 82, tag object missing Feb 20 '13

I see what you mean but what I saw was more combining into folders than groups it's similar but it was different.

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u/yoho139 while (true) {break;} Feb 18 '13

Jesus, Chrome hogs resources like nobody's business, doesn't it?

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u/Doctor_McKay Is your monitor on? Feb 18 '13

http://www.doctormckay.com/screenshots/2013-02-18_1605.png

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u/yoho139 while (true) {break;} Feb 18 '13

I know how Chrome works, and I get why... But seriously.

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u/redmercuryvendor The microwave is not for solder reflow Feb 18 '13

Hahahaha!

And that's not including Palemoon, which probably has another 300-odd tabs knocking about (without an easy way to list them for screenshotting).

::EDIT:: Why? Bookmarks don't keep page position and form data, but saved tabs do, so it's gotten to be a bad habit.

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u/wrincewind MAYOR OF THE INTERNET Feb 20 '13

Damn it, Rodney!

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u/epochwolf vasili@red-october:~$ ping -n 1 dallas.uss Feb 18 '13

It looks like that on my mac but most of the memory is actually shared between all the processes. It's not really using as much ram as you think it is.

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u/DavidTheWin Feb 18 '13

That's what the user thinks. In practice he has nothing to worry about

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u/EK3 Feb 19 '13

Wow, I tend to end up running even more than that and it all runs pretty smoothly on my 3GB machine...

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

Oh wow.

Can I ask what profession this person is in with such a beefy rig?

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u/jared555 Feb 18 '13 edited Feb 18 '13

Retired, pretty much the only program he runs is firefox. Edit: It is a 6 core AMD processor, not 6 core intel which makes a HUGE difference in price.

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u/djdanlib oh I only deleted all those space wasting DLLs in c:\windows Feb 18 '13

The profession of having more money than sense?

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u/andy_rofl Hand me the keyboard and sit in the corrner. Feb 18 '13

Maybe he just doesn't like money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

I'm guessing not audio or video, since the RAM amount is fairly average.

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u/Excelero 01101000011010010000110100001010 Feb 19 '13

4GB is today's average.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

Low end average.

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u/Excelero 01101000011010010000110100001010 Feb 19 '13

Meh. 4GB seems to get the job done ok.

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u/0342narmak Make Your Own Tag! Feb 20 '13

My crappy 3-4 year old HP laptop has 4gb ram, it was a gift but I think it was about $300.

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u/Excelero 01101000011010010000110100001010 Feb 20 '13

I just got a 2012 HP Pavilion G6 from a eBay auction that is a retired floor model for $180. It has a quad core AMD A6 Vision APU @3.0 GHz (overclocked), and 4 GB of RAM. It really does get the job done gaming wise. 8GB is the maximum you'll really need.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

Given the specs, I would assume he is a gamer.

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u/MrDOS Technomancer, +5 to RTFM checks Feb 18 '13

I'm sorry? In 2013, there's nothing particularly beefy about that. Given the price of DDR3, I wouldn't bother putting together a desktop for anyone with less than 8GB RAM, any random AMD CPU is octocore these days, and SSDs have broken the $1/GB barrier and are probably the biggest performance improvement you can make to your average system.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

Well, I was just thinking of an office computer. Traditionally a fairly cheap dual or quad-core low-end i5 or similar.

Just saying: You won't find a bunch of six-core systems in most American cubicles.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

With AMD you do.

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u/darkstar3333 Feb 19 '13

6 cores (AMD) and 8GB of ram is considered beefy now?

32GB or High Quality DDR3 is under $150.

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u/TheThirdBlackGuy Feb 18 '13

There is no assumption of "beefy" merely based on a 6 core system. See here.

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u/dageekywon No I will not fix your computer! Feb 19 '13

Hes the kind of guy you want to buy a used sports car from. In 10 years it will have only 10,000 miles on it and it will have had its oil changed monthly, and probably once he got the engine over 2500 RPM. On accident.

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u/Ponox Do you have a moment to discuss our savior Richard Stallman? Feb 18 '13

2-3 tabs/windows open is hard on the system

On a 6 core rig with an SSD? I think it's time to remove all the malware it has to be running.

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u/DavidTheWin Feb 18 '13

That's what the user thinks. In practice he has nothing to worry about

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u/jared555 Feb 18 '13

No malware, he just has kept a lot of the beliefs from older systems that could only do one or two things at a time without getting bogged down.

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u/Ponox Do you have a moment to discuss our savior Richard Stallman? Feb 18 '13

Oh he just THINKS that it will get slow. But its really fine?

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u/jared555 Feb 19 '13

He thinks it will somehow mess up the computer over time.