Someone has to buy that (presumably second-hand) laptop to prevent it from becoming e-waste. 8GB can be plenty for a student, most don't need much beyond a browser and PowerPoint. Many of my university colleagues were using new $5,000+ MacBook Pros exclusively for Google Docs, that seems more wasteful to me.
reply8gb ram is not enough for normal browsing if you are forced to use windows 11 which eats easily half of it.
reply> we shouldn’t buy disposable ewaste with a short life.
replyIndeed. That makes two of us.