If you're a frequent multitasker who can't browse the web with fewer than
a dozen open tabs, you'll come to appreciate the extra RAM on the Plus.
Not exact matches
We all have that colleague who has a couple
dozen tabs open in their web browser at any given time, letting them pile up and shrink smaller until it's difficult to distinguish among them.
I've got at least half a
dozen shopping
tabs open on my phone at all times, the shopping bags are piling up in the nursery - to - be, and I have a full blown addiction to John Lewis» baby department...
I could move quickly between a
dozen tabs in the Browser app, but when I
opened the game Minion Rush, everything slowed down.
That said, 8 GB or 16 GB will let you keep
dozens of
tabs open on your browser and still have room left over for Photoshop.
General performance was great across various usage scenarios, including watching movies, office - related tasks, multitasking including a couple
dozen open browser
tabs, and more.
I experienced buttery - smooth scrolling through websites and snappy transitions between apps, even with a
dozen Chrome
tabs, Slack, Todoist and OkCupid
open.
When I was surfing the web with half a
dozen tabs open in Windows 10's Edge Browser, I noticed some lag switching between pages, and typing in Google docs wasn't completely smooth.
Even with
dozens of Chrome
tabs open at once, the Redmi 5A never stuttered.
Even with over a
dozen tabs open and a 4K video playing, there was no delay when I switched between windows and websites.
I don't know about you, but I find myself
opening a new
tab in Safari at least a
dozen times a day.
Two gigabytes of RAM is the absolute minimum modern Windows systems need to run smoothly, and even PCs with 4 GB of memory can start to feel pokey if you're running several programs, keep a
dozen Chrome
tabs open, or game with some background processes still running.
When I had over a
dozen tabs open in Chrome and was typing this review in Google docs, I didn't notice any lag at all.
After reading mixed reports in the past couple of weeks about how Edge compared favorably against other browsers in benchmarks and also how it becomes unstable when
opening over two
dozen tabs, I tried hammering it with graphics - heavy websites, shopping sites and other sites I use daily while playing a YouTube video.
My everyday use includes Chrome (with maybe a
dozen tabs open), Skype desktop, OneNote, and Slack being
open all of the time.
A couple
dozen Chrome
tabs can bring even the most spec'd - out consumer computer to a halt, while in Firefox Quantum, in our experience, you can have 30 to 40
tabs open and not feel a bit of lag.
One of the best ways to speed up Google Chrome is to reduce on the number of
tabs you have
open (yeah, I know, I'm a good one to talk, I have a couple of
dozen pen right now).
Tab management: It's common for Chromebook users to have a
dozen tabs open at one time.
Chromebooks don't run our Windows - based performance benchmarks, but we had no complaints with the Flex 11's multitasking: We easily
opened and switched among more than a
dozen tabs, including video playback sessions, without hesitation, although we were able to force some stumbling and stuttering by playing three 4K videos at once.