Windows 10 isn’t going to become less resource-heavy overnight, and most of today’s popular web browsers will soon start to gobble up your RAM the longer you have them open full of tabs. And yet we’ll be expected to either make do with 8GB a lot of the time or pay an absurd mark up to get some more. Laptop makers buying RAM in bulk will always get it at a lower price than you or I would by going to Amazon. ![]() Part of the problem is that since RAM can’t be upgraded in most of today’s slim Ultrabooks, getting more is often tied to other upgrades like a faster processor or more storage. The $1,000 and upwards Surface Laptop 4 also has 8GB of RAM, as does the entry-level Razer Book 13. Obviously, it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, but it’s still a thing. Smartphones with 8GB of RAM or more are commonplace now. ![]() ![]() (Image credit: TechRadar) 16GB of RAM should be the standard
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