All my linux desktops do perfectly fine with 2 GB. Mac OS X is a slow memory hog, face it. That's one of the reasons I've bought the XPS 13 to replace my old ma

All my linux desktops do perfectly fine with 2 GB. Mac OS X is a slow memory hog, face it. That's one of the reasons I've bought the XPS 13 to replace my old macbook: with similar hardware my linux machines feel just much, much faster than my mac.