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With laptops (and few other things), I have a personal rule: It's better to spend a bit more and enjoy it than save money and suffer it. Having said that, if yo

With laptops (and few other things), I have a personal rule: It's better to spend a bit more and enjoy it than save money and suffer it. Having said that, if your budget is that tight and there's no possibility of saving a bit more in a reasonable amount of time, I would go for the 8GB version *only* if the model allows to upgrade the RAM, then, months later, after saving a bit of more money again, purchase more RAM and add it. If the model is one of those where the RAM is soldered, I wouldn't even bother.

candiodari 4y ago
Or do both and just get an older flagship model secondhand, both cheap(ish) and high mem... Especially now that full hd laptops (maybe I'm getting old but I don't really like higher-than-fhd resolutions on small screens, not on macs but especially not on linux) I like to do machine learning, which means no battery life, and even an bad old laptop nvidia gets you performance close to an M1.