[Thrymr]

8 GB is barely enough for web browsing these days. What will it be like in a couple years? A MacBook will generally run fine for years, it is well worth future-proofing a bit with more memory, since it is not upgradable.

[giantrobot]

That's a Chrome problem more than a web browsing problem. Chrome is ridiculously heavy on RAM versus Safari on the same machine with the same tabs.