Intel seems determined to prove they're not beholden to the sunk cost fallacy by abandoning every project just after its research and development is fully funded.
I suspect that right now it's still very difficult to sell a laptop with unupgradeable RAM. Even if you never buy the upgrade, it was a reassurance factor: this machine may last five years, and at some point in that window, 16Gb is going to feel skimpy.
I suspect part of the problem is that we're sort of at the end of a 10-or-so year run where 16Gb would be a reasonable choice for mainstream machines, but 32Gb as a default isn't quite normalized. It would probably be a hard push to get the 32Gb-on-package SKU into $750 laptops.
I'm sort of surprised 24Gb laptops didn't take off. There seem to be a surprising number of 12Gb laptops (I'm guessing made up of, say, 8Gb soldered plus the cheapest 4Gb stick they had lying around so they could win a store spec-sheet battle)
Intel seems determined to prove they're not beholden to the sunk cost fallacy by abandoning every project just after its research and development is fully funded.
I suspect that right now it's still very difficult to sell a laptop with unupgradeable RAM. Even if you never buy the upgrade, it was a reassurance factor: this machine may last five years, and at some point in that window, 16Gb is going to feel skimpy.
I suspect part of the problem is that we're sort of at the end of a 10-or-so year run where 16Gb would be a reasonable choice for mainstream machines, but 32Gb as a default isn't quite normalized. It would probably be a hard push to get the 32Gb-on-package SKU into $750 laptops.
I'm sort of surprised 24Gb laptops didn't take off. There seem to be a surprising number of 12Gb laptops (I'm guessing made up of, say, 8Gb soldered plus the cheapest 4Gb stick they had lying around so they could win a store spec-sheet battle)