At the AC, re: what I use it for.
My desktop runs W7Pro64, Jaws 18 (my screen reader), Outlook 2010, IE11, Notepad, & VLC in the background for light music to keep me somewhat sane. That's the base load, the programs always running with others thrown in on top. Windows plus Jaws seems to go through RAM like a starving Calvin Kleine model at an All You Can Eat buffet. Give Outlook a fist full of stupidly bloated HTML emails & it chokes on them, even though I have it set to never load the graphics, tracking crap, or do anything but display it all as plain text. Give IE11 even a dozen open tabs of non-video content (aka not Hulu, Netflix, Twitch, or Youtube style sites) & the (Java) scripts can damn-near *cripple* the machine entirely. In some cases merely visiting a site causes the entire system to shit itself & require a hard power cycle to recover. My browser security settings refuse *ALL* scripting & won't run JS at all, but I still get notices from IE11 that "this site has timed out due to a long running script". Really? And how the *$&%(^ is it allowed to be running ANY script in the first place? GAH!
*Deep breath*
I realize I'm not a typical user, I realize that my normal program load isn't typical, but I still encounter all too many times where the 16Gb in my machine just isn't enough to keep it from taking a faceplant into the desk. I'll bring up the Task Manager (if it reacts at all to the keyboard) & find out that the CPU is pegged at 100%, the RAM has been gone through like a white hot chainsaw through warm butter, & even killing off process' trying to regain control may not work. I realize that 32Gb will probably only mean even more RAM for such crashes to inhale, but for me at least it's about the only thing I can do to solve the problem.
My current machine is a 4th gen I3 Intel NUC running at 2GHz, 16Gb RAM, & a 250Gb SSD. It was speedy as hell when I first got it, it still IS speedy some of the time, but everything has become so bloated over the years that it's just not doing the job as well any longer. I've got a new 8th gen I7 4GHz with 32Gb RAM & a 1Tb SSD due to arrive soon as a replacement. Twice as fast, twice the ram, & over twice as much storeage space should *hopefully* be future proofed for at least the next 4+ years.
=-j
I was going to answer flippantly that I use a 10th gen I10 running at 100GHz with 1Tb of RAM & an Exabyte of SSD space all to run Infocomm games, but then I thought I didn't want to be beaten with rubber chickens.
=-)P
Cheers, go have a pint on me, & have fun.