The 8G or RAM I have is more than the standard 4G of RAM for none developers. All these are company issued laptops. So an i7 with 16GB RAM is a powerful machine in my world.
Ah man. I am in Africa and don't work for an IT company. So I presume those two factors given the cost of hardware here probably results in many people running on machines with 4GB of RAM. My anecdotal observation is that there is that price of hardware practically doubles from a machine with 4GB or RAM to one with 8GB of RAM. Thereafter increase isn't as jarring but I think it is enough to deter companies from buying 16GB machines.
Do companies still buy laptops with 4GB ram? I partly have to work on a horribly slow work laptop with a crappy CPU, but even that one has 16GB memory.