I generally agree - I recommend friends get at least 16gb - but I also know many non-technical people who just don't value "high performance" as much as I do. I

I generally agree - I recommend friends get at least 16gb - but I also know many non-technical people who just don't value "high performance" as much as I do. I would never put up with the way their computers perform, but they are totally disinterested in spending any more money on a computer. They are happy, even if by some metric they have bought a dumb configuration.