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TheBraveGallade on 11 June 2021
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curl-6 said:
burninmylight said:

I could have sworn that I read that the Switch OS is a fraction of that, but I'll definitely take your word over mine. Sounds more realistic anyway.

Well, Digital Foundry confirmed 3.25GB for games, I can't say for certain that all of the remaining 750MB is for the OS.

Wman1996 said:

The rumored Switch Pro will almost surely add more RAM.

But I couldn't see anyway Nintendo would've launched a hybrid platform in 2017 with more than 4 GB RAM. Nintendo hates selling hardware at a loss or merely breaking even. Loading the Switch with 6 GB or 8 GB of RAM would've been very costly to Nintendo. It would've been especially costly and difficult in a mobile device. 

The world's first smartphone with 8 GB RAM didn't even launch until 2017. Smartphones with 8 GB RAM are more affordable and common now, but they're still not the standard yet.

I don't know if there's a way to split RAM between the the tablet and dock. If there is, I suppose Nintendo could've put 4 GB RAM in the tablet and an extra 2 GB or even 4 GB in the dock.

The USB-C connection between the Switch unit and the dock isn't fast enough for this to work.

yeah RAM doesn't work very well in this manner, plus there is the matter of the fact that, if you do this, the system might crash if you pull it out while its usuing said extra RAM.

graphics cards are different since they only handle graphics output, hense why we have thunderbolt GPU enclosures but no RAM ones despite it being technically possible, though even PCIe isn't NEARLY fast enough to run ram at full throttle.

and at any rate, to even be fast enough to run external graphics, it needs thunderbolt 1 speeds at minimum, preferable thunderbolt 2-3. and that wasn't possible unless you are using an intel CPU untill very recently when intel and apple (the owner/developer of thunderbolt) decided to make the spec public and intergrate it into USB4(probably becasue apple is moving away from intel chips). which is a VERY recent spec.