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I will be the devil's advocate here and say that having the 8 Gb ram config on their cheapest machines (MBA, Mac Mini) is perfectly fine, but having it as the base config on the MBP is borderline false advertising.
For the price of a Mac Book Air you can literally get a better, more powerful laptop with 16 GB of RAM.
And if you don't need 16 GB of RAM you can get a significantly cheaper laptop.
Apple isn't worth its price. You're literally paying for the name.
My Dad's wife said she wanted the iPhone. Me and brother tried to tell her it's not worth it. She said she wanted the new iPhone because it's trendy and she can show it to all her friends. THAT is why people buy Apple.
Nice generalising there... given all my friends are Android/Windows users I wasn't trying to show off when I switched over, I just wanted an ecosystem that works when I want to do something... too many times in both Windows and Mint did I have to spend time setting up the system to do something instead of just getting on with it.