I agree with you. I dare to say that almost every OS would largely benefit from extra ram memory, which simply means a less extensive usage of the swap file, a better caching system, and so on. On one of my computers I have 1 Gb of RAM simply because I happened to have the dimms with me and used them. No disk access at all, almost. And, as you say, with applications like Photoshop you may well end up using it all. However, the statement according to witch to get anything done WinXP requires 512Mb of ram is not correct, and I was commenting on that.

As to what I read here, if I am not mistaken, the empeg player application is currently designed to take advantage of only the 16Mb ram on board, so an increase of ram memory would not be enough. You would need ALSO to patch the player application so that it can exploit the largfer amt of ram available.