[lug] recommendation for a 64bit laptop

[steve at badcheese.com]

Dell's laptops come with 4GB max, same with IBM's top of the line. 
Alienware is still maxxing out at 2GB of ram.  Nothing over 4GB that I 
could find.

- Steve

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, siegfried wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:01:22 -0600
> From: siegfried <siegfried at heintze.com>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: "'Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List'"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: RE: [lug] recommendation for a 64bit laptop
> 
>>
>> In short, stick with 32-bit unless you need memory access > 6GB in a
>> single process.  Many performance improvements can be achieved with
>> dual-core and it'll be much more noticable than running in 64-bit mode.
>>
> Are there any notebooks out there that can handle > 4GB RAM? It seems that
> most of the consumer grade motherboards had a max capacity of 4GB too. Has
> that changed yet?
> siegfried
>
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