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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
(www.windowslatest.com)
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Don't worry, soon they will announce that 4GB will probably be fine too, once they discover they need even more RAM for their AI slop farms.
Windows 11 has a minimum requirement of 4 GB.