I offer this observation in case you do end up with a Windows 10 machine . . .
My son-in-law, far more techy than I am, built my PC from parts purchased at Fry's Electronics. I paid for all the parts for two computers (one for me, one for him) after he inquired what I would do with mine (typical things, plus video and audio editing, some graphical stuff with Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator). BTW, the bill for this was comparable to what I'd pay for ONE computer at Best Buy or Office Depot, for comparable power.
I ended up with a machine with 16 gigs of RAM.
I have had no difficulties at all with overloading the system. I've had several memory hogging programs (Adobe programs are the greediest) running simultaneously with a brower, a word processor, and streaming audio (Spotify). A check of Task Manager shows me the use of RAM and it's rarely gotten up to 50 percent. It's like working with your stamp collection on a desk the size of a football field. Your operating system just never runs out of working space.
Perhaps some here use software that justifies 32 gigs of RAM, and perhaps they'll explain why. I'd be curious to know.
>Perhaps some here use software that justifies 32 gigs of RAM, and perhaps they’ll explain why. I’d be curious to know.
With a SSD drive (especially if you’re running v2 SSD) for virtual memory, there’s no reason to get 32 gigs of ram. Save the money on ram and get a big fast SSD drive