[NicuCalcea]

Someone has to buy that (presumably second-hand) laptop to prevent it from becoming e-waste. 8GB can be plenty for a student, most don't need much beyond a browser and PowerPoint. Many of my university colleagues were using new $5,000+ MacBook Pros exclusively for Google Docs, that seems more wasteful to me.

[entropie]

8gb ram is not enough for normal browsing if you are forced to use windows 11 which eats easily half of it.