On 11-11-2020 12:23, druck wrote:
> On 11/11/2020 10:01, NY wrote:
>> I wonder why they chose to give the Pi 400 only 4 GB and not the full
>> 8 GB RAM.
>
> The vast majority of people will be using 32 bit Raspbian, (or Raspberry
> Pi OS as they call it now), so wont benefit from anything over 4GB. To
> make real use of that you have to load a 64 bit OS.

Every process can use 4 (I think it's 3 in practice?) GiB. In
Chrome/Chromium, every tab is a separate process. So if you regularly
open a lot of tabs with huge content ... then 8 GiB might be beneficial
even on 32-bit RaspiOS.

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