Comment by bellowsgulch

This would have also still been true even roughly a decade later, during which time the industry was going through a transition from 32-bit computing to 64-bit, and large amounts of RAM read from BIOS in pre-UEFI systems were slower to boot the more memory you had!

Imagine young would-become engineers at the time finding that adding that second stick to their laptop did in fact, not make their systems magically faster.