Quote Originally Posted by Daniel
RAM is cheap these days. There is absolutely no reason to have any less than 4gb in your PC. You might not need it but it's bloody cheap and your PC will run that much better for it.
Again, that is only of any use if you're running 64-bit Vista or have a PC that has up-to-date 64-bit ready components in it. Windows addresses memory in such a way that regular Vista users won't see any benefit of having any extra RAM above around 3GB. See http://blogs.msdn.com/hiltonl/archiv...m-problem.aspx for details. Snow Leopard will be fully 64-bit and will support as much RAM as you can shove into a Mac.

If you want to convert to a Mac but still have legacy Windows programs that you need to use you can buy virtualisation software that allows you to run a virtual Windows machine inside the Mac. VMWare Fusion and Parallels being the main examples of this type of software.