ram recommendations

Microsoft has removed another Windows Learning Center page that recommended 32GB of RAM for demanding PC gaming, leaving its public guidance at a far softer 8GB-for-everyday-use and 16GB-for-gaming-and-multitasking split. The deleted November 2025 article, How to optimize your gaming PC setup...

Microsoft has added lower-cost 8GB RAM configurations of its 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop in the United States, pairing 256GB of storage with Qualcomm Snapdragon X-series silicon and prices starting at $849 and $949, respectively. The quieter news is that these machines fall...

Microsoft briefly published Windows 11 gaming guidance in early May 2026 describing 16GB of RAM as the practical baseline and 32GB as the “no worries” upgrade, then removed the page after PC hardware sites and users noticed the recommendation. That sequence matters more than the number itself...

Ubuntu’s next long-term support release is arriving with a more demanding desktop footprint, and that has sparked an eyebrow-raising comparison with Windows 11. On paper, Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS now asks for more memory than Microsoft’s flagship client OS: 6GB of RAM versus Windows 11’s 4GB...