2GB of RAM, for a PC?!

Buying a new PC? 'Windows Vista Capable' barely hits the mark IBM'er says Vista's RAM sweet spot is 4GB by Patrick Thibodeau February 20, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Configuring a PC around the minimum hardware requirements of an application or operating system is lot like agreeing to live in a basement apartment. Sure, it will work as a place to live -- if you don't mind damp and dim living conditions.

WHAT! TWO GIGABYTES OF RAM!? Has someone finally lost what little mind they had? A PC, with that much RAM for surfing the web or sending email? Come on. If Vista really requires that for normal operations, then the deployment of Vista as a standalone operating system should be questioned by every CIO that is forced to adopt it. Only recently did I add RAM to my three year old laptop, taking it from 512Mb to a little more than a Gigabyte, but that was because I got tired of waiting for Eudora to open my email while I was working in three other large applications at the same time. This is not just booting the machine level operations. Vista is not a server OS. It should not require what a server does in terms of RAM and CPU just to play games. Have we reached the point where Moore's law has hit the law of incredulity? Why should I have to put that much horsepower into a machine to send photos to Grandma?