My laptops since about 2018 have all had 32G of memory. No combination of Lightroom, video streaming, Jetbrains IDEs, Slack, dozens of browser tabs, and recently generative graphics have ever caused detectible memory pressure.

I’m beginning to think that for the vast majority of people, 32G is enough memory, for the foreseeable future.

@timbray feels like we’re at the top end of the S curve for today’s needs. Once we got SSD and 16GB my use has had plenty of headroom with some beefier workstations for special use scenarios. Latest work machine is 64GB and I suspect will last me a long while