Quote Originally Posted by LadyKillmonger View Post
you don't really need more than 8gb ram these days but if you want your want your computer to still be able to keep up in a few years time then 16gb is good, I have no idea what you'd need 64gb ram for a home computer for, you wouldn't even use it
jon writes code for several different platforms so he's going to be using either emulators or VMs, in addition to a big heavy development suite. also ram is dirt cheap you might as well max out your board so you don't have to upgrade later.

stop assuming nobody uses their computers for anything more than browsing rubynet and talking on msn