It is not imagined, look back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed, we used 32bit operating systems, and this was the bee's knees, it was a Godsend in every way, why??? With 32bit, this came with a "problem" that problem was that no application could use more than 2GB of RAM, period!!! So you just added more RAM, now 64bit has created a monster Apple has no idea how to solve...
It's quite simple, really. There are tasks and workflows that require 32, 64, 128, 256Gb RAM.... and beyond. There are tasks that could make use of every bit of memory you install. Running VMs, running demanding rendering jobs, etc.
Honestly, most of these jobs require much more CPU and GPU horsepower than a laptop can provide anyway, but I guess sometimes it is useful to have lot of RAM on a laptop too.
The problem is, most people complaining here do not do this type of work. They are running regular apps and drawing the wrong conclusions by watching the Activity Monitor, or iStat Menus or whatever. They see that, I'm paraphrasing, their "RAM is all filled up". This is their logic: "the computer says I'm using 15 or 16Gb RAM, so I'm all filled up. The next app that tries to load will require more, and there won't be any free RAM left." This, of course, is wrong - because if you know how memory management works you'll know that every modern OS will do their best to fill up all the available RAM no matter how much you have of it. Of course, only a part of that is actually used by apps, the rest is preloading things, caching, etc.
Now, what happens - let's say your computer slows down and you see a beach ball spinning. You RAM is supposedly "full" (although it really isn't) and you assume (which is reasonable, but wrong) that you need more RAM. Instead, the slowdown is most likely tied to something else entirely.
Also, with 32bit OSes, the limit per application was 4Gb, not 2. And, I am not sure what Apple "does not know how to solve" and how 64bit is "a monster". Every modern OS is 64bit which is a good thing. It also allows for much more memory usage, but it doesn't mean adding more will always give benefits. There are numerous tests (for example, Linus has a great video) that show that currently (and this has been true for a while, and will be true for a while longer) even 8Gb RAM is enough for most tasks and that adding more rarely gives improvements. 16Gb RAM is enough for serious work and unless you're into some very specific tasks, you won't need more for a good 5 years to come. There ARE people who need more, don't get me wrong. But these people are doing specific tasks with this RAM, not opening up Chrome tabs and looking at the Activity Monitor thinking their browser, Spotify and Mail are too big for 16Gb.
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Look it is simple..Apple does not have the stomach for innovation, they simply don't have the will or the reason to innovate laptops, mac pro's, they have cancelled apple branded monitors...
What does innovation have anything to do with the amount of RAM in a laptop?
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(Hey Phil... other vendors have 32GB laptops... like all of them...)
With tradeoffs. Which doesn't mean they are not good for some people, just that there are tradeoffs and that most people should not buy a 32Gb Dell XPS, unless they really need it. Apple is a different kind of company than Dell, so they chose not to offer this option. It's not like they couldn't easily do it, they just think this is the way to go about it: offer 16Gb laptops now and wait for low powered RAM to catch up.
