It's not enough to be a primary workstation for anyone who reads Hacker News. But for me, a laptop is a secondary device for remote work. I have a base model M1 with 16GB of RAM, and honestly only got the RAM upgrade because I wasn't price sensitive. I'm typing this reply in a tab-infested Firefox right now, and even with a bunch of other programs open, active/wired memory is slightly less than 9GB.