RAM is so cheap nowadays (but that might not last) that I had to resist splurging a bit on an extra stick of 1 GB of DDR2 6400 RAM. Got a gig of memory for RM 200 without taking into account the credit card surcharge of RM 4. I had to pay close to RM 500 a few months back. In the end I decided against fitting my desktop with 3 GB of RAM. Partly because I know my memory usage is just slightly above 1 gig so 2 gigs should be more than enough for now, and I was right. Performance went up a notch with much less drive swapping. Also, S.T.A.L.K.E.R now runs smoothly with no drive access at all. Overall the system feels snappier and I can keep more programs running at the same time - Eclipse and NetBeans can run concurrently with an application server of choice. Way cool.

And to take a page out of the MasterCard ads: performance of a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo, 1.6GHz FSB and 2 GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM - priceless