How much is 4gb of ram enough for?

I just got a 4gb oF RAM MacBook Air. I was wondering what kinds of applications I will be able to use side by side without slowing down. Also, of I ran photoshop by itself would it be ok?

RAM cleaning APPS are not only useless, theyre frequently detrimental.
Mavericks is optimized to use RAM correctly, and no 3rd party can either equal or best this operation.
Nearly 100% of "RAM cleaning" applications have extremely low ratings for a reason.
They are not recommended and often "worse than useless".
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/12/compressed-memory-in-os-x-109-maverick s-aims-to-free-ram-extend-battery-life
Mavericks uses RAM much more efficiently than any other previous version of OS X. Mavericks now has a memory compression feature that will compress the memory occupied by applications that aren't being actively used and give the freed up RAM to the application that needs it the most. Memory Pressure graph that tells you how stressed is the system in terms of memory.
Fore more information about OS X Mavericks new system management technologies visit:
http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/
See page 5 here:
http://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Ove rview.pdf

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