It limits product lifetimes and customers fail to refuse the crippled products. Most customers will notice that the <8GiB laptops are sluggish to unusable for m

It limits product lifetimes and customers fail to refuse the crippled products. Most customers will notice that the <8GiB laptops are sluggish to unusable for more than "light browsing and office work", but don't understand that it's the lack of RAM (combined with slow eMMC flash in the worst offenders). Most customers don't purchase laptops by RAM capacity and instead by the cheapest crap with a bright low resolution display. It's too tempting for companies to remove the second memory channel and half the memory capacity to reduce cost. Why would they loose money on long lasting fast machines if the cheaper to crap sells a higher larger margin (and has to be replaced frequently)?