No matter how much I upgrade my master computer, it always seems like I need more so fast. I remember back in 1999 I upgraded my hard drive from a 2GB to an 80GB. Spent a boatload to do it too. I seriously never thought I'd use that much. Right now I have 4 1TB hard drives, 1 500GB hard drive, and a 128GB SSD. They're not all full, but it just goes to show you how much technology changes.
Now if you guys remember, I just upgraded my computer to an i7 3770k 3.5Ghz quad core with 32GB of RAM. I seriously thought that I wouldn't need an upgrade anytime soon. But now as I sit here using 22.75GB of RAM, I am once again reminded of how futile it is to try to build a computer so powerful I could never use it. This is what I currently have open:
*12 Waterfox (internet browser) windows open with a total of probably 300 tabs between them
*9 Google Chrome windows open with probably 200 tabs open between them
*6 folders open
*AVG open
*2 Books open in Adobe Acrobat Reader
*Opera internet browser open with 4 tabs
*TOR anonymous browser with probably 10 tabs open
*Windows Update open
*Text document open with proxy server list
*Media Center open with Netflix
*Internet Explorer with 1 tab open
*Photoshop with probably 10 things open
*Media Player with music open
*Settings/Computer Info window open
This is typical in a day for me. As some of you may know, more RAM doesn't make your computer faster. It just allows you to have more things open at once. And I love my minimize button. I rarely close anything. I'm seriously wondering when I'll need to upgrade my motherboard so I can handle 64GB of RAM. Or, may the heavens help me, 128GB of RAM. Still, I have enough power on this computer so that I can keep all this open and running and still run a game like Skyrim. Maybe I won't have to upgrade anytime soon after all. I don't know. But anyway, just thought I'd share this with y'all. Technology sure does move fast. Oh and don't be thinking you're in the stone age if you have 4GB of RAM or even 2GB. For "normal" use, that's more than plenty. Even really expensive computers from HP and Dell only have 8GB or sometimes 12GB. I just have a more extreme machine.