How much impact with 4G RAM?

I bought the base model 13" MBP (with 2G RAM). My use is pretty plain vanilla (Web, email, iPhoto, MS Office, Skype, etc) with no heavy video or gaming. What's the general view of the value of going to 4G? And if yes, what about doing it myself? What does Apple charge to do it?
Thanks,
Picman

I agree that for many users, 2 gig of RAM is plenty. For those of us who run Windows 7 in a VMware Fusion partition and want to leave it open while we are running OS X programs, though, more RAM is better. I just upgraded my MBP from 2 to 6 gig with modules I bought from OWC, Macsales. Now I can have Safari, Mail, iCal and Windows 7 in a Fusion virtual machine running simultaneously with no noticeable slowing down of any processes. I have assigned 3 gig of the RAM and one of the two processors to Fusion and Windows 7 is performing far better now than it ever did when I had only 1 gig of RAM for it. The total cost of the OWC modules was $189.99.

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Nearly 100% of "RAM cleaning" applications have extremely low ratings for a reason.
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