ok MS enthusiasts, it's Surface 4 decision time. trying to pick between i5 with 16GB memory, or i7 with 8GB...they come out to around the same price. aside from the usual surfing and office applications, probably the most stressful thing it'll be doing is Photoshop/Lightroom, and maybe occasionally some Premiere.
I know generally having plenty of memory to spare is always good, but my main desktop has 16GB and I've never really seen it close to being used, even when I have a dozen things open at once. conversely, the CPU will max out if I'm doing video encoding, which tells me that's the limiting factor for that kind of thing. yes I know the best solution would be to throw another few hundred bucks in and just supersize everything, but if you had to choose what would it be?
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