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Learning on an old laptop with 4 GB of RAM. Does hardware really matter for DSA?

Anonymous3 hours ago

Everyone online says upgrade first. I don't have the money right now. My IDE is slow, I've got about forty browser tabs open at all times, and I'm wondering if I'm blaming the machine for my own focus. The problems themselves run fine. Is there a point where it genuinely slows study down, like running a local database or a big project? Or is it mostly a comfort thing?

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Anonymous3 hours ago
I'd measure it before spending anything: run your IDE, browser and database together for a week and note when it actually stalls. If it never does, the money can wait.
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Anonymous3 hours ago
In my experience it's mostly comfort. A 4 GB machine is fine for solving problems in a browser. It starts hurting when you run an IDE, a local database and a Docker container at once. Close tabs before you buy anything.
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