> In your situation I would get 4-6GB of RAM, so factor that into your budget. Not many laptops currently support >4Gb of RAM at the moment, so that's an issue

> In your situation I would get 4-6GB of RAM, so factor that into your budget. Not many laptops currently support >4Gb of RAM at the moment, so that's an issue too... Technically the chipsets on the new Mac laptops do, but it's not an Apple-supported option yet. Hopefully in the next rev.