It could be that I'm the wrong audience for this but I can't help but feel this is massively disappointing even for budget options. The minimum criteria is no way acceptable for 2023, especially given there's a lot of development happening around LLMs that can be run on-device. Given the current state of AI, I feel like the baseline specs is all the more important for general consumers also to play with these and to interface with them.

Then again, Google's (and Microsoft's) vision is all about locking access behind their cloud empires.