This reminds me of triple-core processors that were "inconceivable" right until they shipped.
Why? Why not 8? Whatever, I doubt I've ever seen a phone with more than 2 GB RAM. I wish my phone was as powerful as my PC (which is very old, has 4 GB RAM and can't handle more because of the chipset limitations) so I could just attach peripherals I want, boot a desktop Linux (directly or in a VM) and use it instead of the PC.
So they can sell you 8 next year. And 10-12 the year after that. And 16 after that. And so on and so forth...
> I doubt I've ever seen a phone with more than 2 GB RAM.
- The first phone with more than 2GB of RAM was the Samsung Note 3 back in 2013 - with 3GB.
- Almost every "flagship" phone since 2015/16 has had 4GB of RAM or more. So if you've seen people using phones on the street, subway, office, etc in the last 3 years, you've seen phones with more than 2GB of RAM.
> I wish my phone was as powerful as my PC...so I could just attach peripherals I want, boot a desktop Linux (directly or in a VM) and use it instead of the PC.
That would be awesome and is my ideal view of the mobile computing future.
Samsung Note 3 is exactly the model of my phone. I've always believed it has just 2 GiBs. Let me check...
Yes. free -g in Termux says 2. However...
... free -m says 2834 which means ~2.77 GiB. Well, this indeed is "more than 2GB of RAM" but not much and what a weird number...
> That would be awesome and is my ideal view of the mobile computing future.
Seems like it's the past already. There were numerous attempts (successful in a way or another) years ago and despite the fact smartphones become more and more powerful and add more RAM this approach still doesn't show signs of becoming popular and the most hyped projects get either discontinued or stagnant.