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Yeah 8gb of ram is unusable for most things.
Seriously? I have recently been working on my personal programming projects on my ThinkPad from 2014. That thing also has 8 GB RAM. It's slow, but that's only because the dedicated video card is no longer supported by NVIDIA. I was totally able to run PyCharm, my program (which was hungry for ram), and Firefox with quite some tabs open without any issues. And most people will be doing more basic stuff on this than what I was doing. Browsing around, editing some documents, viewing some photos. I'm not sure how heavy MacOS is, but I'll assume it's more like Linux than Windows. You can do a lot with 8GB if your OS isn't gobbling up resources to spy on you, show you ads, or run some useless AI shit you didn't ask for.
I agree that it's not a lot, but this laptop is not meant for people who need to do more than what I mentioned, putting much more RAM in there would just creep up the price without really offering anything.
Note that I'm not an Apple fan or anything, I've never even used anything from Apple.
Most notably web browsing which one would think this thing is mostly for.
What is wrong with your computers that 8GB is unusable for a browser?
Probably Windows.
Tab hoarding I would guess.
Nah chrome (worst case scenario) with about 80 tabs total on a M1 Air w/8gb is okay, I see it often doing IT support. This should be a bit better. A18pro is pretty efficient.