I ordered an Acer Aspire Switch 11 Touchscreen Windows 8.1 PC with a Core i3, but it only comes with 4GB of RAM.
I want the 4GB to work as well as possible, so my question is should I upgrade to Windows 10, or does Windows 8.1 have better memory management?
Thank you.
The only information about changes to memory management in Windows 10 that I've seen so far is this
In Windows 10, we have added a new concept in the Memory Manager called a compression store, which is an in-memory collection of compressed pages. This means that when Memory Manager feels memory pressure, it will compress unused pages instead of writing them to disk. This reduces the amount of memory used per process, allowing Windows 10 to maintain more applications in physical memory at a time. This also helps provide better responsiveness across Windows 10. The compression store lives in the System process’s working set. Since the system process holds the store in memory, its working set grows larger exactly when memory is being made available for other processes. This is visible in Task Manager and the reason the System process appears to be consuming more memory than previous releases.
The difference is minuscule in a real life scenario - but by a tad Windows 10 is better in terms of memory.
Have a look here: http://www.pallareviews.com/3545/windows-10-benchmarks-performance/#Memory_Usage
