8gb does seem a little light, but the headline is misquoting what Apple said it seems, "Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on othe

8gb does seem a little light, but the headline is misquoting what Apple said it seems, "Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems," “Analogous to” is not them saying it is equivalent. Now why are they shipping computers with such little ram in the first place? Is that still such an expensive component that they can’t stick in a more reasonable amount? It definitely seems like this is done as a way to put a lower more competitive price on something that anyone who actually needs to do “real” work on these computers will recognize they need a lot more ram than that. Easy way for them to squeeze more profit from their consumers. That said, their iPhones are 6gb of ram and the pro models are 8gb, and this is not configurable. So is it enough for basic day to day tasks, running the software that comes with the Mac out of the box? The answer is clearly yes.