It's a fair question to ask. I have tinnitus at ~30 because of loud poor-thermal expensive work laptops. My work Dell's fan gets really loud, to the point where I can't bear sitting next to it.

I got desperate as they couldn't do anything about it at work (nor could I). So, on the 22nd December, I went to look for an MBA as I'm now sensitive to even the slightest fan noise. At that time, there was a shortage of stock, so I didn't have much choice.

I don't actually know if there's a 16GB option, as all I'm finding in my country is the 8GB.

Nonetheless, even for the iMac, I think a max of 32GB would have been reasonable,