[zxcdw]

> 8gb should be the norm even for cheap laptops...

Why? For example, why now, why not two years ago, or in two years time?

[isostatic]

I haven't paid much attention to specs recently, but looking at the Thinkpad T series which I'm typing this on (a 2010 one with a decent keyboard)

The standard for a 2017 T460s is 8G, maxed out at 20G The standard for a 2010 T410s was 2G, maxed out at 8G The standard for a 2005 T43 was 512M, maxed out at 2G The standard for a 2000 T21 was 128MB, maxed out at 512M.

So a 4 fold increase in 5 years seems a historic trend for laptop memory sizes, but that would mean 8G as standard in 2015. The maxout level has tailed off recently too - I'd expect a max out at 32G now, not 20G.

Presumably the demand appears to be dropping, that said my uptime is only 5 hours, and memory use isn't great Mem: 7779 5269 277 713 2232 1437

Browsers use tons of memory, at some point I'll have to buy the bullet and downgrade the keyboard, looks like 20G is the way to go.

[bluedino]

You can put a 16GB chip in that 460 to max it out for $150. In the days of DDR2 it cost $800 to max out a laptop with 8GB

[detaro]

The non-s versions of the T-series can do 32 GB, the 20GB limit on some Lenovos is due to them only having one memory slot and 4 GB soldered in.

On the other hand, even some 2010 laptops support 32GB max, the most on current ones is as far as I know 64GB, so yes, the max curves certainly have flattened, but I think reasonably so.