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It's criminal to sell laptops with only 2 GB of memory. It's just enough to boot up and swap to death permanently.

I can't figure out why Microsoft doesn't enforce minimal requirements for OEM vendors to ship Windows. It's hurting their reputation and their userbase. Customers try shitty laptops like that and blame windows for being horribly slow and broken.

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Because for a while they put a maximum on it instead.

At the time, netbooks were growing organically and could be had with 2 or 4 gigabytes un some cases, with Linux for less that the Windows version.

Microsoft countered this with cheaper versions of Windows that were limited to lower specs, such as 2 gb.

This was the so-called "starter edition" of XP and similar licensing programs for Vista.

The policies might have changed with Windows 10 (not sure), but the legacy remains.

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