Comment Depends on your applications? (Score 1) 543
The amount of RAM you have, asides from maxing it out for no good reason, is after all up to the needs of the applications you run.
I've got a dual boot machine with 8GB of RAM; when I run Linux for my day-to-day surfing, adminning, etc then most of that memory is completely wasted (except *cough* possibly partially used by firefox...).
That is of course until I have to start 2-3 virtualbox instances running e.g. Win XP/Win 7/whatev to try something I've built out in different versions of web browsers.
Then there's many other workloads to consider... I boot in to windows natively whenever I need to run pshop cs5 which generally eats RAM like hotcakes...