16 Gb vs. 8 Gb of RAM for CS5.5, Lightroom 3 on the Mac?

Hi!
I've ordered a Macbook Pro 15-inch with a 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor. I'm going to be using it, most importantly, to run the CS5.5 Master collection (though I probably won't be using Premier much for now) -- as well as Lightroom 3, in which I'm a total newbie.
My question is: should I bite the bullet and get 16 Gb of RAM right away? Or would that be just a waste of money, 8 Gb being sufficient for my purposes? That is, how much of a difference would the RAM doubling make? I generally work with moderate-sized images (< 200 Mb). I do like to keep several big apps open (e.g. Bridge, Photoshop, and InDesign).
The 16 Gb vs. 8 Gb price difference is, of course, huge (something like 350 euros vs. 50 euros). Money's kind of tight (I got the Adobe student discount for the software), and I feel I really should be saving up for a better camera.
-opm10

If you can still cancel the order, I would do that immediately and go for a Windows laptop, if you really need the portability. If you go for a Windows desktop that will improve performance by a factor 10 or more. But even a Windows laptop will give you a much better machine when you have two internal SATA disks installed, and the memory upgrade from 8 to 16 GB is far less expensive. In addition it will have better connection capabilities, more choices in video cards and you can gain hardware MPE support with the proper video card. A proper Windows laptop is at least 2 times faster than a MBP and much more affordable.
If you really want to stay with a MBP, which does not meet minimum requirements for use with PR, it seems a further waste of money to get additional memory, since the system is deprived of a good video card, an eSATA port and has only a single hard disk, where two are required.

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