A New Computer for Christmas

[HogwldFLTR]

Mary has given me the go ahead to buy a new computer for Christmas. Although I used to do tech support for Apple products I've never been a fan. Having worked in engineering for most of my life I've been using MS products since early DOS and I've been very happy with the changes in the last few years with the introduction of touch screens and currently Windows 10.

I went down to the Microsoft store and decided to get the Surface Book with Performance Base with the i7 uP, 2 gig video chip (NVIDEA G force), 8 gig of ram, and the 256gig ss drive (upgradeable through addition of an SD card for greater drive capacity).

I've played with idea of spending another $300 and upgrading to 16 gig and 500 gig SSD. Although this seems attractive to me I'm really not certain what the extra 8 gig of ram would do for me. For the most part I use the computer for editing photos and surfing. I'm considering adding an xbox controller and using it for some gaming as well although I've not been into that for a long time.

Anyone familiar with the advantages of getting a more decked out system or are my instinct correct in that the extra power would be wasted on my paltry needs?

Thanks!!!