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					Originally Posted by emopunker2004   
He's does photography as a side job and uses the 60D and his PC has those specs.  Think 4gb would be ok for now if it has space for 8gb?  I really don't want Win 8 | 
	
 What does Windows 8 have to do with it (and yeah, I don't want that sh!t either). Even windows 7 home basic x64 will allow up to 8gb of RAM.  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...mits_windows_7
And yeah, 4gb is enough for now, long as you have space for 8gb. 
My guess is that he's never created a really layer intensive file, or tried to open 5+ images at once. You can't imagine the frustration when you work on a file for 20 minutes, got a bunch of layers, and then try to save it and photoshop says that it doesn't have enough memory to save the file. 
