Given that most people are on a budget, it's natural to go for the least amount of RAM to keep costs down. Fortunately, now that 16GB is the baseline, that could be enough. I bought an 8GB MacBook ...

But as we’ve seen from the painfully slow iOS 8 adoption numbers, which are lagging in part because iPhone and iPad owners simply don’t have enough ... cost between a 16GB memory module ...

and we have a unified memory architecture. Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently. And so what ...