I heard a delightful retort recently to this kind of comment:
"And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle"
Who's to say that the architecture can support 4GB, or that adding the components in would only bump up the price by $20, or that ASUS wanted to make something different to the device they made but just didn't know how, or that the goal is to have a device targeted at the 'limited use desktop PC' market, or that users of a limited use desktop PC would find memory the biggest constraint on this device for their particular choice of OS ... and so on.
It's easy to identify ways that you could improve the specifications, and increase the cost, of pretty much any device. It's hubris to believe designers / vendors of hardware are ignorant of this.
I mean, PCs from thirty years ago (when RAM was measured in kilobytes) were good enough to develop on. Quad cores and gigabytes of RAM sure are nice to have, though.
Of course, for a barebones PC, you don't really need "Nice".
"And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle"
Who's to say that the architecture can support 4GB, or that adding the components in would only bump up the price by $20, or that ASUS wanted to make something different to the device they made but just didn't know how, or that the goal is to have a device targeted at the 'limited use desktop PC' market, or that users of a limited use desktop PC would find memory the biggest constraint on this device for their particular choice of OS ... and so on.
It's easy to identify ways that you could improve the specifications, and increase the cost, of pretty much any device. It's hubris to believe designers / vendors of hardware are ignorant of this.