I totally agree with your comment, except for the last bit about 64GB of RAM being unreasonable high.
Is it unreasonable to spend thousands of dollars on memory for Enterprise-grade, production-level servers? In my experience, you'd almost certainly better be using over a hundred GB of RAM in a server if you want to maximize the overall compute density.
To be clear, plenty of Desktops and all workstation-class laptops support 64GB+ of RAM.
I think that agrees with my "industrial grade" comment. :-) In production we are currently deploying boxes with 256GB of RAM. But for our backup server, it's hard to spend more on RAM than on the disks in it. The box is capable of it, it's just the cost that makes it unappealing for this use.
For various reasons, the backup server doesn't get much priority.
Is it unreasonable to spend thousands of dollars on memory for Enterprise-grade, production-level servers? In my experience, you'd almost certainly better be using over a hundred GB of RAM in a server if you want to maximize the overall compute density.
To be clear, plenty of Desktops and all workstation-class laptops support 64GB+ of RAM.