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}

What a load of crap. I and the other developers on my team run Visual Studio 2008, the SQL Query Analyser, and all the other usual programs like Outlook and Excel on 2GB RAM and it's just fine. 8GB is ridiculous for a developer workstation.