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}

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I do stuff that requires an order of magnitude more performance than this clown yet I'd have trouble justifying more than 6GB on my workstation. There's no way microsoft's TURNKEY ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS eat such ridiculous amounts of ram. 512MB for a naked install of XP? How the fuck is that even possible? XP was released in 2001, and budget computers had only 256MB back then, maybe even 128MB for some.
What a fucking crybaby. If you're gonna beg your employer for new toys, at least ask for something that would actually do shit performance-wise, like a ssd or a velociraptor.