(It’s been an interesting personal experiment for me to see which browser tends to behave better, and I’ve found the new Edge browser handles memory better than Chrome.) Upgrade, or buy new? I recommend, among other Teams suggestions, disabling the Outlook add-in disabling hardware acceleration adjusting the page file settings and, of course, adding more RAM.Īs we move more applications to the cloud, the browser and its memory use becomes increasing important.
That means you may need to do some tweaking to get it to behave on lower-RAM machines. Teams relies on the Electron platform and is actually a web-based application in the background. Fast forward to now, and the consensus is that the bare minimum is 16GB - primarily due to the new memory-hog de jour: Microsoft Teams.
Then as we started to move more things to the cloud and turned to the Chrome browser to access websites, that was no longer enough. Not long ago, for a nicely functioning Windows 10 machine, 4GB of RAM was fine. The other day, the topic of RAM - and what’s the minimum amount needed now for a Windows 10 computer - came up in a Facebook IT consultant-based group I’m part of.
