I've been noticing the little tics and freezes starting to happen occasionally. They're still so short and so small that they're easy to miss. But a few months ago they weren't there AT ALL, so I think that much like the others I've had, in a couple of years it'll be a different creature than it was in 2024. I don't know they keep piling more and more features in, and more and more storage, but constantly less RAM. My S21 Ultra was far and away the best Samsung S series Galaxy that I've ever owned. I used the living hell out of that phone, and it never slowed down, it never hiccuped, and it never gave me a single moment of grief. But unlike all of the "bigger, better, faster" S series Galaxies which have followed, my S21 had 16GB of RAM, and i strongly suspect it's exactly why I never had a stutter or a misfire with it. Samsung is just insanely greedy with RAM the past few years, and I really don't understand what is possessing them to do that.
Like, I have a small Alienware laptop, it's like 6 years old, and it came to me with 64GB RAM with a 128GB option right from the factory. But a few months ago, I hit up Samsung directly for a Book3 Pro 360, and I figured that going from Windows 10 to 11 almost immediately, I wanted at LEAST as much RAM as my 6 year old laptop had stock. But Samsung told me that was no such critter to be had, on ANY level. The base models came with 8GB, the Pros came with 16GB, and the Ultra has 32GB and that's where it maxes out? Seriously? In 2024? For a laptop that they are charging almost $5000 to own, the very best that they can do is 32GB RAM, and only on their top-tier Ultra version? That is sad, and that is greedy. And I think that I'm finally going to get off of my "samsung for everything", train.
