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Originally Posted by nathris 
Gonna spend the extra $200 for 16GB or trust that 8GB of ram ought to be enough for everyone? 256GB should be enough too, since its just a laptop. Besides, in a few years when the battery's dropped to under 3 hours you're just going to have to get a new one anyway since its non-replaceable.

Gonna spend the extra $200 for 16GB or trust that 8GB of ram ought to be enough for everyone? 256GB should be enough too, since its just a laptop. Besides, in a few years when the battery's dropped to under 3 hours you're just going to have to get a new one anyway since its non-replaceable.
I've never seen any battery drop more than 10% of its capacity over ~5 years, bar one IBM Thinkpad that only lasted 10 minutes unplugged; but that's because its former owner used it often but only plugged in.
















