Is 2GB ram enough?

[Wheelbrace]

I am thinking of replacing my ageing laptop and I have been advised that I ought to be thinking of 4GB RAM to cope with modern life.

This is expensive and I wonder whether 2GB is sufficient for a normal home user. I also intend to buy an external hard disk.

Any help would be appreciated and any recommendations on manufacturers and models etc.

[Ethel]

Unless you are in to hard core gaming, or high end video editing, 2gb is plenty.

[Wheelbrace]

Thank you Ethel-I thought 4GB was a little OTT

[ChuckFickens]

LOL..

Our servers at work are running 4gb of ram... so yeah think it's fairly safe to say that 2gb is plenty for most home users :)

I personally like dell laptops, but my company has a policy of using HP and they seem pretty good to.

[sarah_louise]

I think if you have 4GB of RAM, Windows only recognises and reports 3GB when you look it up in System Information.

[Wheelbrace]

Thanks everybody - you have made my mind up on 2GB.