Oh, and if 14GB boggles the mind, what about 2TB? I noticed HP is preparing to ship a DL980 server, with 8 processor sockets capable of 8 core Xeons, so up to 64 processing cores. 128 DIMM slots with 16GB DIMMs = 2 TB of RAM.

At work, we have moved all the programming staff to 12GB systems, and the increase in their productivity is pretty impressive. Between that and an SSD, they've gone from staring at link progress while browsing the web on a secondary machine, to having a single machine stay usable while they compile. Compile times in general were cut down to 1/5th of where they used to be under Windows XP 32 bit and 3.something GB of RAM.