Right, but on a laptop increasing either is often hard.
Sure, the RAM reduce work you're doing is appreciated - of course I'd rather have the blockchain on disk than in RAM. But not everyone has 1TB of anything. Fortunately 128GB will, I hope, be enough in the short term.
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When the blockchain starts getting into the hundreds of GBs, I suspect that most normal bitcoin users will be using Armory in "lite mode" that doesn't require the blockchain locally at all.
Fortunately, I think that date is long enough into the future that Alan and co. should have this "lite mode" working well by then.