Funny enough RAM is still used to segment products in price classes even though its cheap. Want to buy a entry level mac? 8GB here you go, now you can only have

Funny enough RAM is still used to segment products in price classes even though its cheap. Want to buy a entry level mac? 8GB here you go, now you can only have a couple of tabs up and god forbid you open up photoshop while browsing. It wont run out of memory but it will page to disk making switching programs slower. Next you have an OS update which conveniently consumes more RAM.