Apple 13" M1 MacBook Pro (Space Gray, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) $1199 + Free ship

Must have 16GB. Ended up getting one from Adorama with no tax and a discount code from Apple Insiders or somewhere.

If you still think that "8GB is plenty", there is something you should know about these Macs: Disk swapping can seriously shorten the lifespan of your SSD and the SSD is not-replaceable. (Disk Swapping = When you run out of actual memory and the computer writes unused memory to disk so that it can free up memory to run other programs and then read it back off of disk when the information is needed.)

Many new Mac Mini users are already discovering that their 8 GB Minis are are frequently or constantly swapping memory to disk, resulting in terabytes being written to the disk per week, even though they aren't saving much actual data. (All disk swapping) At that rate, some drives could easily render the entire device inoperable within less 5 years. (Potentially FAR less, if memory usage continues to increase for web browsing and common apps). And do you think you'll be willing to spend hundreds to repair it when it fails instead of of buy something 2-3x as fast for a little more? No. So you chuck your laptop or sell it for parts on eBay and the cycle of landfill continues.

Soldered RAM sucks, but soldered SSDs are a disastrously bad idea. Apple does this to force you to pay ridiculous premiums for otherwise inexpensive upgrades and to ensure that you replace the devices more quickly (aka planned obsolescence).

For those looking for more information, check out this video and the links to users having these problems in the description: https://youtu.be/u7LOljirF6g?t=281 (The rest of the video is pretty funny, talking about some of the odd behavior with 3rd party USB-C docks causing new MacBooks to brick.)

tl;dr: Caveat Emptor. Don't expect this to last.

Excellent insight. Eventually, are you suggesting that we don't buy or we buy but with 16GB RAM and maybe 512GB SSD xD?

That is all true, but would it affect the average user? The 99%? I understand that it would affect people editing 4K or have 100 tabs open. But for the average user? It's not going to matter.

Who are these average users that use 1-2TB of write to their SSD a day? I mean just by browsing the web and doing some productivity work doesn't even chew threw 20-30 GB of data a day. No way these guys are "average". They must be rendering or doing something crazy. It just makes no sense.