Hydropothecary announces expansion plans to increase production capacity to 108,000 kilograms per year of dried cannabis
4 gb of ram is so much. 8 GB is definitely overkill unless you are planning on doing something involving video. With ableton you would actually be fine with 1 or 2 gb, 4 gb is plenty.
The official minimum recommended RAM for a desktop system is 512Mb though I have run 9.04 on an old physical machine with only 384Mb and it was slow but just about acceptable (my main machine was playing up so I used the old machine as an emergency measure to get some mail read+sent and a document thrown together).