[Tepix]

"Never" is a long time. Just think about how much ram we had 10 or 20 years ago. 1.5TB isn't a lot really.

[bjackman]

It doesn't matter if you have the RAM, running a 1.5TB model for a single context stream is fundamentally inefficient.

[Tepix]

Lots of things are inefficient in IT, yet we do them anyway. Think about the amount of time your laptop is idle.

[usef-]

The typical ram has surprisingly not increased very much in 10 years.

> April 2016, 8 GB was standard across the 13-inch MacBook Air range

... Now it's 16.

Rich nerds will have quite a bit more. But I suspect the standard of model rich nerds want to use will have gone up somewhat too.