content: Who are you kidding? You can't afford a desktop environment at that level! You want tabs, you take a lightweight window manager and a single-threaded browser, mister! But seriously, I've had to use Windows 7 systems with only 2GB of RAM in the past. If I was careful, I could do my thing, but it would easily lock up and was guaranteed to be slow as molasses in January after I came back from lunch. The station I'm at now has 4 gigs and an SSD, which makes so much of a difference.