8GB Is Enough Again (Apparently)

For years, the answer to "how much RAM do I need?" was always "more than you have." 4GB became a joke. 8GB became "the bare minimum." 16GB became the new baseline. 32GB started feeling reasonable for developers and gamers. The ceiling kept moving, and the industry was happy to sell you more every time it did. Now, Apple has released the MacBook Neo with 8GB as the base configuration. I've been watching the reactions online and it's a familiar split, half the people are outraged, half are saying