Until 2 weeks ago, my main PC was a laptop with 1GB RAM. The only reason for an upgrade was that I ran out of disk space and could not buy a bigger IDE disk to fit in it. I have never used swap and never felt like 1GB was not enough. So all this talk about 2GB - or even 1GB - on what is by design a secondary device at best being "not enough" or "mid range" sounds like a mindless rant to me.