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I generally replace my laptops on a 4-5 year schedule and have not performed upgrades on any of those systems. Usually by year four I'm thinking that some upgrades would be nice, but there are usually major improvements on the newer systems that make putting money into my old system of questionable worth.

So while I get where you are coming from, I do question how many actually take advantage of that ability? I imagine it is an exceedingly small group.

Considering that the cost of electronics has generally gone down over time, there's no guarantee that you'll spend that much to replace it then.

The average person doesn't need 16GB of memory, and by the time they do, they need a new computer anyways.

The average person doesn't run Chrome and Gmail?

There is something seriously wrong with your computer if you feel that 16GB is required to run Chrome and a webapp.

I would have thought so too, but with where "web 2.0" is going nowadays...