I bought a new laptop with 16 GB of DDR5 (8 GB soldered and 8 GB socketed) as it was super cheap for an 8840HS, and was planning to buy a 48 GB SODIMM for 120€ but held off on it for multiple reasons, thinking “it can wait and I can make do with less memory for now”

Yeah that 48 GB stick now costs 500€ which is just 50€ short of the entire laptop…

My comment ended up in a Tinkernut video back when he was all the rage in the Youtube tech space