Related to #8 but not directly to what you said: > Making the problem worse is that fact that most consumer PCs are sold with the bare minimum of RAM. Is this

Related to #8 but not directly to what you said: > Making the problem worse is that fact that most consumer PCs are sold with the bare minimum of RAM. Is this true still? I thought it was clever marketing to sell your laptop with 4 gigs and a 32 bit OS. Not only can the OS not address all that RAM, but it wont use all of it. To the uninformed consumer, which this article is about, they think 'Wow! 4 gigs?! This other one only has (n, where n < 4) gigs, so this 4 gig computer must be a better deal!"