[TheOtherHobbes]

8GB is most definitely not fine for anyone who works with media.

Considering the number of people who make YouTube videos, memes, SoundCloud tracks, web pages, blog posts, photo uploads and shares, and so on - that's a lot of users. 16GB means they're going to be waiting around the disk to thrash its way through a swap whenever they switch between applications.

My iMac has 32GB, and it's a bare minimum for comfortable thrash-free media creation.

Remember when media and creation was an Apple thing? That.

[moyta]

Not defending the MBP, but at least they have SSDs that can push 3.1GB/s [1] which is much better than most devices, esp. spinning rust. What Apple has done on the iPhones with their SSD's bus (moving off eMMC to a much faster bus) is also a big performance boosting move, really helps to keep RAM costs down now with the ongoing RAM shortage.

[1] - https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/2016-macbook-pro-ssd/