Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599.
Source: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tech/977031/chuwi-unibook-laptop-intel-wildcat-lake-review)