For years, the answer to "how much RAM do I need?" was always "more than you have." 4GB became a joke. 8GB became "the bare minimum." 16GB became the new baseline. 32GB started feeling reasonable for developers and gamers. The ceiling kept moving, and the industry was happy to sell you more every time it did. Now, Apple has released the MacBook Neo with 8GB as the base configuration. I've been watching the reactions online and it's a familiar split, half the people are outraged, half are saying "actually it's fine." What's interesting is that the "actually it's fine" crowd seems to be... right this time? Apple's unified memory shares one pool between CPU and GPU, with bandwidth high enough that the system rarely has to page out aggressively. In practice that changes what 8GB actually feels like. People running Xcode, Safari with tabs open, and a local model at the same time report it holds up. On a regular machine with 8GB, that combination would be painful.…