[a-priori]

I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...

[wmeredith]

I'll second that. Considering I work at an online development agency and only have 4GB of ram in my work machine, I'd say the author is a bit out of touch. This is most definitely an issue for me.

[jonknee]

You have twice as much RAM as the people he was speaking of. I'd say 2GB is pretty low these days, glancing at Dell.com even the $499 entry level laptops are shipping with 4GB.

[LukeShu]

Wow... My laptop that I do most of my work on is packing 1GB. I guess I have had it for 4? 5? years. Of course, using things like wmii and Emacs help keep my memory usage down, but Firefox is making that harder.

[jonknee]

RAM is cheap, is there a reason you haven't upgraded? My laptop has 8GB and it comes in handy quite a bit (for virtual machines especially).

[pbhjpbhj]

768MB here, any help apps can give in keeping themselves lean is good.

[rjbond3rd]

Same here, 768Mb RAM on a 7-year-old Thinkpad X40 (only 3 pounds with a 12" screen).

[mrseb]

I thought about throwing 'silver' in before the 'surfer', but now I'm glad I didn't.