What are you talking about? I have no clue what you mean by "knock the RAM necesity down to 4GB". I'm really confused what the purpose of your post was...
I think what he means is that since you're looking for a tablet for generalistic purposes,you should consider taking down your ram requirements to 4 GB which you have already said. 
I found another article, is this something you're looking for:
https://www.techradar.com/news/acer-announces-new-slim-and-powerful-swift-5-spin-5-and-switch-7-black-edition-convertible-laptops