[mikewarot]

Why wouldn't you spend as much on RAM as you would on your CPU? It seems kind of silly to skimp on RAM or SSD space these days.

There will always be some application that comes along and can use the hardware that you didn't imagine. I remember a friend saying that the 48k in his Apple ][ was enough ram for any program... as long as you didn't go filling it up with graphics and that kind of nonsense.

It's amazing how small code is compared to the data it operates upon.

You need all that RAM to virtualize operating systems, because running native code is dangerous.

The observant may wonder why running native code is dangerous. Why doesn't the operating system defend itself?