What's next, in 2027 will they release laptops with 4GB RAM? Are we going backwards?

To be honest, I am currently living with major Schadenfreude regarding ram costs.

For literally years, SV companies have had a "ship fast, fuck the users" mentality when it comes to resource usage, as if software is written more often than it's run.

Finally having some constrained supply of memory will force people to actually build software that can be reasonably used on 5 year old hardware (which would otherwise be perfectly servicable).

Slack from 2015 doesn't meaningfully add anything over Slack from 2025 yet I need 3x the RAM to run it.

Teams is worse somehow.

Let's hope software gets enough less bloated to make that workable.