yeah, it would be harder to make and sell "handicaped" configurations to users for high prices, forcing them to prematurely upgrade... hence everybody would mil

yeah, it would be harder to make and sell "handicaped" configurations to users for high prices, forcing them to prematurely upgrade... hence everybody would milk less money from the end-users. also, some still sell 5400 RPM HDDs (!!!) in some versions of current-gen machines and some people actually buy them! all systems you see today with like 6-8GB of RAM and <500 GB SSD storage will practically force their users to upgrade in <3 years, whereas if you sell to the average home user a system with >=16GB RAM and >500GB SSD, he could keep using it for up to 6 years with no chance of it feeling underpowered... so very bad for business!