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The only thing I really hope for if this continues for an extended period of time is everyone optimizing their programs to use a minimal amount of ram.

For the companies doing massive build outs, there's already significant pressure to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

I bet everyone will soon use a thin client with 4GB of RAM, and all the compute happens in the cloud of some American corporation you pay subscription fees to.

I can see that happening, though that sounds pretty bleak

And that will probably fail. I don't think on average companies are capable anymore to deliver software that can operate on only 4GB... Even if everything but presentation layer is cloud based...

You're probably right. On my 7th gen i7 with 16 GB, which should theoretically be plenty to check my email, GMail's web interface is very slow.