> Only a few poorly written games and  a poorly written OS, for consumer 
> workstation/laptop needs more than 512M

Maybe one app needs only 0.5G, but for typical work I USE
- eagle, possibly multiple copies
- at least one IDE, sometimes two (PC and embedded)
- a browser, with lot of tabs and/or windows
- pdf viewer, idem
- sometimes a virtual machine, I'd love to have a few open for comparison!
- my administration, which is probably poorly written because it keeps 
everything in memory

The last two are real memory hogs. I don't care about 32 or 64 bit, but 
I would love some more GB's!

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Wouter van Ooijen

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