Last year, I bought myself a P53 and went nuts on RAM with 128 GB. I thought it was overkill but now I'm starting to realize that I actually need it. My old computer has 32 GB and it was constantly swapping.

My RAM usage easily exceeds 70 GB on a typical day. I don't like closing apps because it takes a while to start these apps and configuring them and running them over and over again. Unfortunately, I must keep my laptop plugged all the time because I can't get more than 1:30 hours of runtime.

I don't typically use multiple desktops, my taskbar is my best friend. I have increased the size to two rows because of how many windows are open.

I'm a freelance writer but also have to run software environments to document them.

This is what a typical day looks like for me:

• Vivaldi: Browser for my personal browsing. I typically have 30 tabs open and loaded. A ton of extensions.
• Firefox: I have a separate profile for each client. I usually have two or three each with 10-20 tabs.
• WhatsApp: For talking to people.
• Discord: For talking to people.
• Slack, Teams, Skype: Chatting with the clients. They don't typical use the same chat programs.
• GMail, Todoist, Calendar: They are running in separate windows for general productivity management.
• ManicTime: To keep track of my tasks for personal tracking and knowing how much to bill the clients.
• Microsoft OneNote: Where I keep all my notes.
• Microsoft Word: Several instances for different documents I'm working on.
• Inspiration: For brainstorming
• Adobe Premiere Pro: For creating video tutorials and other contents.
• Adobe Photoshop: Usually for Branding.
• VMWare: I'm running multiple VMs for different products. Mostly Linux but several Windows 10 ones that eat memory.
• Visual Studio Code: Code exploration of different products.
• Visual Studio 2020: For different code basis, mainly Visual Basic personal projects.
• Android Studio: Some clients have mobile apps.
• YouTube Music: Keeping my ears busy.
• Balsamiq: For prototyping
• Some games still running in the background, usually BeamNG.drive loaded with a map.
• OneDrive: For backing up important files and projects.
• Several things running in the tray. Memory consumers include HWInfo, SIP, and Steam

I'd like to get your opinions and your workflow, it would be very interesting. I know many of you recycle older ThinkPads with 16GB or 32GB. I wonder how much I could personally cope with such little RAM.