It's 300MB of RAM when it's not doing much, it's the lowest possible value.

When so many little tools that you normally keep running in the background, it starts adding up. Not to mention that not everyone has that much RAM. Until recently, Apple still shipped Macbooks with 8GB RAM.

I've also started having issues with my Windows partition filling up with these applications. Again, no one application is a problem, it's the trend that's the problem.

No single raindrop is responsible for the flood.