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8GB RAM is pretty derisory for a 2020 machine. Is there a RAM shortage somewhere I haven't heard about?

• zamadatix 6y ago
  It's so the "starting at" price is low but they can mark up RAM and Storage upgrades when you actually go to order as if they were the expensive piece. They are making something like 80% margin when you max out the RAM, I assume similar for the "SSD storage" of ambiguous type. Dell did the same thing with the RAM in a 7740 and 7750 I recently ordered (work and personal), ironically about the same markup.
  • josho 6y ago
    I swear that the MBAs are ruining the world. This is the crap that mature industries pull to grow profit since they've saturated other growth channels. Instead of product growth, MBAs come up with product bundlings to maximize profit by obscuring the true cost to customers.
• icedchai 6y ago
  I have a first generation iMac 27" 5K (late 2014.) They were shipping with 8 gigs back then and I immediately upgraded to 24G. It's ridiculous that 8 gigs is still the default config! I recently ordered one of the new Raspberry Pi 4's with that much.
• rbanffy 6y ago
  My wife has an 8 GB Macbook Pro and she's quite happy with that. For most uses (and she usually has a dozen Word documents open at any time) it's perfectly fine and the machine is quite snappy. OTOH, I'd expect the average HN user to need a lot more. I'm currently finding 16 GB a bit constrained and would be delighted to have 32 in the same footprint. The server under my desk has 64 and the swap indicators tell me it should have more (or less stuff to do).