Its probably not the end of the world. I just suggest it because if you are running VM's and if you are actually doing work with them actively while still usin

Its probably not the end of the world. I just suggest it because if you are running VM's and if you are actually doing work with them actively while still using the primary OS too it really makes a difference. For example, I will run services in a VM and then my "remote" application either in another VM or in my main OS to test. Sometimes this is to test across OS boundaries to make sure nothing funky is happening, so I need them to run reasonably decent and not be super sluggish. Having the RAM helps. So its a judgement call, if you do that 10% or less of the time, 8gb is probably totally fine. If you do it 50% of the time, then I'd rethink that personally.