I teach system admin for a living. When Covid hit and on line classes became the norm we put 500GB ssd and 16GB memory into some Dell 5420 laptops(2011 era). W

I teach system admin for a living. When Covid hit and on line classes became the norm we put 500GB ssd and 16GB memory into some Dell 5420 laptops(2011 era). We ran Google Classroom and up to 4 VMs (Win1X/Fedora3X) depending on the topic. Two years later we got modern dell machines with 32GB. After configuring the new machines for the same teaching environment I cannot see a big difference. It will be needed eventually as the demands of the VM guests change over time. For our current load not need yet.