Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

Apple says 8GB is dandy for most mainstream tasks but that's not actually true.

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I can't remember when I had such little RAM in a machine I own.
- I can! It happened to be the last Mac I owned, which I bought in 2008.
- My mid-range 2014 laptop has this little. This was considered the minimum for a productivity-oriented device a decade ago.
  
  Much to my annoyance, it's also one of the first (edit: modern) laptops with non-upgradeable RAM, which I didn't know beforehand. It's still usable, but I'm using Firefox instead of Chrome (so 50 tabs are no issue) and it's never been my primary device.

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