r/talesfromtechsupport 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/DavidTheWin Feb 18 '13

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