My 2012 thinkpad w530 already had 32GB. And it's usually fairly full. windows vm + browser + a few JVMs + office + analyzing memory dumps... and you want some

My 2012 thinkpad w530 already had 32GB. And it's usually fairly full. windows vm + browser + a few JVMs + office + analyzing memory dumps... and you want some spare capacity for the disk cache. Some occasional photoshop too. Analyzing memory dumps probably is the most demanding thing I do regularly. But all those pieces add up either way.