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Originally Posted by JSWolf
2GB is not enough RAM. Once you start running programs, you run into the issue of too little memory. 4GB is tolerable in some cases. 8GB is the minimum you should have.
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That's unfortunate, because only the very largest Chromebooks have 8GiB RAM, and you have to pay a substantial price premium.
I can verify that my Chrome here, with several hundred tabs open with all sorts of stuff in them, is using less than 3GiB RAM. Thus I conclude that your argument is wrong: 4GiB is likely to be enough for most uses and 2GiB is probably fine for light use. (This does depend to some degree on ARM versus x86 Chromebook and also on what's running in the tabs and what extensions you have: Adblock Plus is a horrific memory hog, for instance, and you can often halve your browser memory usage by just switching to uBlock. I'm doing perfectly well here on 4GiB with Chrome with lots of tabs and flipping *Emacs* running.)