By Mayank Parmar
Publication Date: 2026-11-04 02:07:00
Microsoft has declared that you can “do more with 8GB [of RAM],” and this time, these are not just words, as the changes are already available. If you use Windows 11 26H2 or newer, Microsoft says your system can be up to 40% more responsive, and the improvements are mostly visible on PCs with 8GB of RAM.
Microsoft spent the last two years convincing regular users that they need at least 16GB of RAM, and gamers that 32GB of RAM is a “must” for serious players.
RAM prices are through the roof, and Microsoft is now selling PCs with 8GB of RAM again. Its OEM partners have also started building and selling 8GB RAM PCs to take on the MacBook Neo, which runs comparatively better than Windows 11 with fewer resources, but that has finally begun changing.
It’s not that Windows isn’t doing better on a PC with 32GB of RAM, but the optimizations are obviously more noticeable on low-end PCs.
In a test on two PCs with 8GB of RAM, Microsoft opened 20 tabs in…
