>6 gb of ram?
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>I use 512mb of ram and my dev environments are fast.
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>Mike, I'm pretty certain that VS2012 can't run in 512 MB of memory.
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>I can't speak for Mike Beane, but I'm pretty sure he'd want to run Office products, which also aren't likely to run in 512 MB

I plan for the new one to be strictly a development machine, at least at first. Everything besides VS runs acceptably. I am not a heavy Office user at all.

But should I be concerned that the new machine is due to arrive on Halloween?