>>The fact that the world has all this amazing hardware, and this ten year old laptop works just fine makes me wonder what kind of racket IT professionals are pulling here.
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>>Why do you say "racket"?
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>Its some kind of scam. 6GB of RAM for what?
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>For no other reason to blow money and rare earth materials.

Have you ever heard of a multi core CPU? Or caching? On my laptop I have a four core CPU, each with 4GB of RAM, a total of 16GB. Am I crazy? No, I am efficient.