I'm occasionally tempted to add RAM, but every year my OS and applications get more memory-efficient so I have less of an excuse to spend any money on that. I'

I'm occasionally tempted to add RAM, but every year my OS and applications get more memory-efficient so I have less of an excuse to spend any money on that. I've got 16GB and it's getting more sufficient all the time! The latest compiler upgrades make it twice as fast as last year, on the same hardware. Life is pretty good. (Avoiding hardware upgrades isn't all peaches and cream. My graphics cards are getting less acceptable all the time, and I'll probably need to upgrade this year.) I don't use Chrome or Slack or any of those others. The easiest way to use less memory is to not run programs which require a bunch of it. People who drive Ferraris don't complain about their fuel economy.