No, you're completely right in that 16 GB RAM is not considered low-end. You only have to browse for laptops for about 2 minutes to discover that 16 isn't at all "low-end".

I think you missed the point I was trying to make entirely (that people's definitions of "low end" differ, although "low-end" steadily moves up), but from that perspective:

- 8GB is easily available and what most cheap laptops sport,

- 16GB is either default or an addon for cheaper laptops,

- 32GB is a premium that is not always available, and

- 64GB is usually only available in huge workstation or gamer "laptops", although there are some decent-size Dells with it.

While those are not my choice of metrics, they do seem to support the "low", "mid-low", "mid-high" and "high" labels I personally added. At most, you could argue that ≤8GB is low, 16GB is mid and ≥32GB is high. 10 years ago, 16GB would have been high-end for a laptop, but no more.