[guessmyname]

> What tasks are you doing that require 128GB RAM?

You’re thinking about it the wrong way.

The more RAM you have, the faster + smoother your experience using an application will be, and this will be much more noticeable if you usually run multiple applications at the same time, like virtually everyone in the world do.

This is especially true now that we have options to run local-only AI models. The next couple of years will be interesting.

[chx]

> The more RAM you have, the faster + smoother your experience using an application will be,

This is the mentality that MSI targets with the $1300 AORUS Z790 Xtreme X motherboard. More is clearly better, right? Nope. Not at all. In this case, there is an amount of RAM an app will consume and you have that much, the rest will not do much. Even buffering/caching only can consume so much. It's very hard to fill even 64GB in a laptop but 128GB is near impossible.

[mrweasel]

While I do agree that 8GB is a little dated, even the 8GB MacBook Air from 2020 runs most applications smoother than modern Windows machine with twice as much RAM. Apple have the smoothness part figured out, without the need for more memory (for the average consumer at least).

Your point about local AI is pretty interesting. It does seem highly likely that computers with limited memory could "age" faster than they have done in the past ten years, with the advent of more AI workloads.

[ZiiS]

A 8GB Air can exist without a 8GB Pro.