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Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop
This $210 AMD Ryzen laptop may well be the best-value business notebook ever
Motile 14" Laptop: Ryzen 3, 1080p, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD ($199)
Motile 14" Laptop: AMD Ryzen 5, 14" 1080p, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD ($299)
MOTILE 14 Review $299 RYZEN 5 3500U Performance Laptop Amazing Value! (10m40s video)
$299 MOTILE 14" Performance Laptop Emulation Test - RYZEN 5 3500U (11m50s video)
External GPU On A $300 Walmart Laptop! MOTILE 14 + Radeon RX590 (10m52s video) (lol)
These $200-$300 laptops have a stellar reputation compared to the $80 landfill-tier EVOO 10.1 tablet that Walmart is associated with.
The main problems are probably single-channel RAM (although at least it can be upgraded), apparently a crappy Wi-Fi card, no USB-C charging, and they are Zen+. It's possible that Zen 2 "Renoir" could allow 4 or 6 cores in place of what is currently 2 or 4 cores, although it would take a while for prices to drop down to these levels.
Personally, I might take a break from laptops and try building a small form factor PC using Zen 4 (AM5 socket), which may be released in 2021. AM5 should support "mainstream" CPUs with at least 24 cores, possibly 32 cores.
Also, @krishnoid, Lenovo 100e is at $99.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday February 06 2020, @10:25PM
IMO, beyond the 60-100 tab range, you have a lot of tab clutter, and maybe multiple browser windows open. You might forget some news story that you have open that you wanted to submit, for example. Maybe it works for you but for me that is the danger zone. Currently I have 23 (on a 4 GB system) + 25 (8 GB) + 105 (4 GB) tabs open.
Also, I would question whether these 550 tabs are really in memory. I think 20-25 MB per tab is a typical average, maybe less than 5 MB for static content but jumping to 100 MB or more if there is heavy multimedia content, scripts, or whatever. And then memory usage can slowly creep up if some scripts are left running (a default behavior of most script blockers is to allow scripts on the domain, only blocking third-party and blacklisted domains by default).
So if you click on an old tab or use the keyboard command to cycle through them, do some of them reload? Less of it is stored in memory in that case (favicon, title, URL, and page offsets are probably the bare minimum, maybe a snapshot of the DOM?).