16GB of RAM just doesn’t cut it anymore for PC gaming. Here’s why. New games and hardware benefit significantly from more RAM. By Friedrich Stiemer. Contributor, PCWorld Feb 9, 2025 5:00 am PST.

Before this, it was a $200 upsell to get a MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM. Now, that’s no longer the case, bringing Apple’s cheapest laptop more in line with its competitors.

With all that in mind, I’m absolutely sure that the M4 MacBook Air will also ship with 16GB of RAM at its cheapest price points. That’ll give you a $200 discount on RAM, just like on the M4 ...

One of the key elements that maintain smooth performance is RAM (Random Access Memory). While we still find plenty of notebooks with 8GB of RAM or even less, 16GB is becoming more of a standard today.