[tristanperry]

Yep true, although it's not just laptops. I often see 'high end editing PCs' with 16GB of RAM, which is possibly sufficient for 1080p editing, but nowhere near enough for 4K editing for multiple programs open.

I guess it's similar to how some laptops/budget desktops still have hard drives, even though an SSD wouldn't cost much more but it'd offer great performance benefits.