What could you do with an extra 256 megabytes of memory? Why do I ask? Because to run windows xp it's recommended to have 256 of memory. That's just to run the operating system. Windows vista is going to need how much? And that's just the operating system, no photoshop, or other memory hungry programs.

I mean that memory could be used in other ways. For example on graphics. One thing though with linux is though the tools arent' as good. But one thing if someone writes tools for linux then they better understand how such tools work.