What is a good size memory capacity for a small office computer?
Purchase the most you can afford, as there will come a time when you will regret not buying two GB. You can purchase 4 GB of memory for $90 right now (which is overkill) but I would not go with anything less then 2GB for office computers. If your employees are anything like the ones I support, then they will be running ten apps at the same time. Remember, not matter what amount of memory you purchase, not all of it will be available for the operating system and the applications to use. A portion of it will be used by the hardware, and there is nothing you can do to change that. With 4 GB installed, there will be only 3.2 GB available for use for Windows and the applications. A similar percentage reduction will be seen whether you have 1, 2 or 3 GB installed. 2GB should be your base starting point because of this. If you are talking storage then 100GB seems to be the standard now for hard drives in new systems.
