Re: "2GB RAM [...] is pretty constrained these days even for a phone"
If you notice the icon, and read the post in relation to @Dan 55's post, the reply is more playing with the fact that @Dan 55 used 16Gb and 512Gb, which is Gigabits, for a notebook, a Pixelbook, which translated into GigaBytes is 2GB and 64GB. Whereas they probably meant - but typo'ed - 16GB and 512GB.