Do I need 8 gigs for lion on mac pro?

Do I need 8gigs for lion?

As Steve points out, you need to tell us what you're doing.  Lion does use more RAM than Snow Leopard did.  I was fine with 4 GB on Snow Leopard, but ended up needing to upgrade to 8 GB in Lion, but mostly because of things like 3D gaming, working with photos in Aperture, creating graphics in Photoshop, etc.  All tasks that use a lot of RAM.  When I wasn't doing those things, that 4 GB was fine.

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