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Seriously, Don't Buy a Windows 11 PC With 8GB of RAM
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The description seemed like extreme usage for how a lot of people use laptops for casual personal use. Not good for work or AAA gaming, but if you think ram prices are gonna crash soon and can get by with 8gb for now, upgrading in the near-future could potentially be an option.
That said, I wish I had upgraded my work laptop to 32GB instead of 16GB, which I did before prices skyrocketed...
The problem is that you have to be really careful about the laptop you buy if you intend to do that. A lot of laptops now have soldered, non-upgradable memory, as we're hitting the bandwidth limits of what DIMMs can do, but the bulk of the industry hasn't transitioned over to CAMM2 (the new removable standard) yet.
EDIT: Here's a Reddit discussion from four years ago saying that even at that point, it was very difficult to find any laptop models that didn't have at least partially-soldered memory:
https://old.reddit.com/r/laptops/comments/uzjmim/ultrabook_without_soldered_ram_do_they_even_exist/