I don't know your usage habits.. browsers, excel etc like RAM.. if you have lotsa tabs open at once, big excel sheets/lotsa excel sheets at once, 8GB may be too little.. 8GB should be fine for most people anyway.. since you would have a SSD, and if you do use all 8GB of RAM, it will start using the page file which is in SSD and should be faster than if it were on the hard disk drive.. you would notice a slow down when this happens but, it should not be as drastic as with a hard drive..