Question

What do you guys think of this?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/24-gigabytes-of-memory-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody.html

Answer 1

I would make mine the commentary of Edward Chick: "It kind of Depends how you Define "Memory" doesn't it?
We dream of one day a type of Memory that would unify all, speed of RAM, Capacity of SSD.
And With Muti Core, We are hitting the "wall" for Memory Bandwidth, not Memory Capacity." Thing is, without a faster clock rate, it's not that much important (for end-users) to have gazillions of RAM memory. Well, I don't know, personally, I don't feel the need for it, but that's me :-)

Answer 2

It really depends on what you plan on doing. For most users I would say its useless to get more than around 8gb of RAM. However, if you plan on running programs and doing work that requires more RAM then by all means buy it, but I think for most users getting something like 24gb is a little over the top.

Answer 3

So, you guys disagree with his "futureproofing" because A. that much RAM is not necessary for most users. B. One looking to Future-proof RAM would not be able to, because RAM speed itself is the bottleneck of computing, and it's the speed and not the amount that matters?

I added some of my own words, but lol

Answer 4

buying RAM for the future I think is futile, because of not only of speed, but that if the average use of a computer evolves to the point where you need more RAM buying RAM now wouldn't help you because of the speed bottleneck. I'm sure some people need more RAM than 8gb, but for your average user I think anymore than 8gb at this point in time is a silly investment.

Answer 5

I don't think it's bad, nor I think it's not the amount that matters. But futureproofing is, honestly, unfeasible. Making a bit of philosophical statement here, I do believe in the beauty of minimalism and harmony. Having 24GB of RAM, as of now, is extremely unbalanced. The video card, motherboard and cpu will, very likely, go out of date first. And before long, the sockets will be changed. Then what, you buy another 24 gb of RAM? I don't know... Personally, I think unless you run multiple VMs, do some video processing or something like that, using all 24gb of RAM seems a bit hard. But that's my opinion.
And by the way, this part made me giggle: "Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM. "

Answer 6

You read the comments? Everyone was like, "Buying RAM is for people who don't know how to write algorithms". This guy isn't just anyone, he was a cofounder of stack.exchange. Software guy go back to software? xD

Answer 7

No, I know it was a joke. :-) It made me giggle because of that. People take the internet too seriously, haha.

Answer 8

This guy's a massive troll though.