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> In most cases that's now more than doubled. Really? I still find it difficult to get a laptop with more than 16 GB of memory. 13" MBP maxes out at 16 GB. 14

> In most cases that's now more than doubled. Really? I still find it difficult to get a laptop with more than 16 GB of memory. 13" MBP maxes out at 16 GB. 14" does have 32 for $500 more, which might be ok for a company but is certainly a lot for me to spend personally just so I can run Electron apps comfortably. Non Apple laptops are similar. If I'm buying a laptop instead of a Desktop, its for the ability to conveniently bring it with me when I'm not at home. For that, 13" is my preferred form factor. So at least Apple and Dell laptops, I have not seen one with more than 16 GB. I feel its unreasonable to expect me to sacrifice physical comfort just so apps can be written to use Electron.

sshine 5y ago
Buying a gaming laptop, you can easily get 32GB RAM without paying a premium. If you want a MacBook Pro M1 with 32GB RAM, the total cost is easily twice.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  'Buying a gaming laptop, you can easily get 32GB RAM without paying a premium' I appreciate gaming laptops, but it cannot be a requirement to run some basic electron apps that very user needs day to day. Why should it take more RAM to run teams htat it does to edit 8K video?
  - sshine 5y ago
    It doesn't require 32GB RAM to run an Electron app, and it doesn't require a gaming laptop. This is a response to how 32GB RAM is not as common in branded laptops (ThinkPad, MacBook Pro) as we'd like. Perhaps you mean it shouldn't take 8-16GB RAM to run an Electron app? It appears from this thread that 4GB RAM is often not enough.