How much RAM do you need? 8 GB is the standard amount of RAM for your average desktop computer.Past that, many people go up to 16 GB, and occasionally users will go for 32 GB.

How much RAM do you need? For most PC and laptop owners, 16GB of RAM is a good figure to target. It gives you plenty of memory for most modern games, enough to run plenty of web browsing tabs at ...

You’ll also need (and want) the extra RAM if you run 64–bit Windows Vista, a topic I'll get to shortly. First, let's talk about that 2GB configuration. I've used Vista on more than a dozen ...

If for some reason you encounter a laptop with only 2GB RAM—perhaps an older budget model being sold secondhand—it’s only worthwhile if you can immediately upgrade it to 4GB RAM or more.

Current Core 2 Duo-based Macs (MacBook Pro, iMac) share a chipset that -- while capable of carrying 4 GB of RAM -- can recognize and make use of only slightly more than 3 GB.

Samsung, who is the dominant player in the mobile RAM market, is now announcing that their 20nm-made 2 GB LPDDR2-1066 memory chip will soon start appearing in high-end phones and tablets, and they ...