Does anyone really need 8GB of RAM?

http://www.jondavis.net/techblog/post/2009/02/13/Nine-Reasons-Why-8GB-Is-Only-Just-Enough-(For-A-Professional-Business-Software-Developer).aspx

Personally, I think this guy is just plain retarded.



_{Also, he is a bigger MS fanboy than most of /g/, but that isn't relevant to the conversation}

Business users have fucked themselves into a corner by running Windows. After accounting for memory mapped I/O devices, that 4GB limit is looking pretty small. And there's no usable 64-bit version of Windows in sight.

All the more reason to switch to MAC