> Nowadays laptop are sold with 500GB SSD and minimum of 16GB or RAM. I know we are living in a bubble as HNers, but this can be disproven quite easily. I open

> Nowadays laptop are sold with 500GB SSD and minimum of 16GB or RAM. I know we are living in a bubble as HNers, but this can be disproven quite easily. I opened the website of MediaMarkt (a major European electronics retailer) and clicked (literally) the first laptop I saw: https://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_acer-aspire-3-a315-35-c06g-1708906.html https://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_acer-aspire-3-a315-35-... 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD. OK, maybe you consider that one too cheap (although there must be people buying it). Let's click the first 'reasonable' one: https://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_acer-nitro-5-an515-57-529m-1711510.html https://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_acer-nitro-5-an515-57-... 512GB SSD but 'only' 8GB RAM. (And this is supposed to be a gaming laptop!)