I'm a sysadmin on an 8gb ram machine and a magnetic disk. I spend a lot of time with browser tabs for different things open, and today's culture of 'load the en

I'm a sysadmin on an 8gb ram machine and a magnetic disk. I spend a lot of time with browser tabs for different things open, and today's culture of 'load the entire internet for every page' means that 8gb doesn't go far. SSD is a given over magnetic these days, and even for a terminal jockey, 480GB could be required if you play with a lot of data. I don't use that much and I have ~100GB in play. The quad i7? Why not, I guess. Obviously has some money to burn. And if you read the very first sentence after the stats are listed, the author recognises that it's overkill.