512MB ram is nothing now
512MB ram is nothing now
512MB was a huge flash drive now it's not enough ram. Turns out Spotify can't open-source Car Thing because it's a potato https://www.androidauthority.com/spotify-car-thing-open-source-3449487/
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It depends on what you are doing. I've got single board computers running happily with 512MB of RAM. I certainly wouldn't want to try and run a GUI on them though.
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People have been running GUIs on much less for decades--though if you're trying to use something out-of-the-box, anything modern will certainly not do well. But there's tons of RPi stuff that runs on meager specs.
I'd have expected people would use these things for similar projects as SBCs.
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I used to run a GUI on a Raspberry Pi B+ and it was doable, but that was a decade ago and many programs have gotten a lot more bloated since then. Of course if you are just running your own software, you can optimize it to run with very little RAM.
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You can do it easily if you aren't running full HD or something heavy. Enlightenment runs great on my Pi B and 2 B.
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Antix Linux says hi, also remember that gta 5 and Skyrim was running on 512mb shared memory in Xbox 360 and 256+256 vram+ram on ps3
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You might not remember that the original Macintosh had 128KB. That's KB with a K.
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Our 90s Mac ran OS 7.6 with 24 MB of ram and a 500MB HD.
Played shareware/warez games pretty well too, even OG Warcraft over 56k dialup direct to my friend’s PC.
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