Do laptops with 8gb of RAM exist?
Jun 25, 2008 | 3:13 pm
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I'm curious as to what a laptop would need 8gb of RAM for, that would not be otherwise overly burdened by the nature of laptops to be relatively disk I/O bound?
Jun 25, 2008 | 3:31 pm
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I support a number of folks who do this sort of thing and have office computers with 16+ GB of RAM in them. While they'd like to have that much power in a mobile computer, what they usually end up doing is remoting-in to their desktop computer to do anything intensive.
Jun 25, 2008 | 4:12 pm
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Furthermore, even if the program is disk based the cacheing of the memory can make a great speedup.
Jun 25, 2008 | 5:41 pm
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You just have to keep in mind, most operations systems (windows 32 bit - xp, etc)... don't utilize more than 3.5 gig...
Your 64 bit OSs will support more.
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Jun 26, 2008 | 9:02 am
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HP has workstation models (8510w and 8710w) that have optional 8GB of memory available for 1270$.
Jun 26, 2008 | 11:18 am
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Jun 26, 2008 | 2:36 pm
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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...c8a701033.mspx
A google search should provide more info.
Jun 26, 2008 | 3:03 pm
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In general, not much. If you *need* more than 4GB of memory, then you *need* a 64-bit OS. If like most people you're doing just fine with 1 or 2 GB, then more memory won't make things faster.
Jun 26, 2008 | 4:10 pm
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If you are just using Office, etc - you'd see better performance, but from other software apps, they may or may not run on 64 bit
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...c8a701033.mspx
A google search should provide more info.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...c8a701033.mspx
A google search should provide more info.
Still, the above comments about the fact that you won't really notice a difference are accurate.
Jun 26, 2008 | 9:40 pm
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There is only one reason for 64 bit--it lets you go past the 4gb boundary. If you need that you need it, otherwise all you get out of it is a slightly bigger program.
Note that with 4gb on the board you might see a speedup from a 64-bit OS as otherwise something around 1gb of that memory is being thrown away.
Jun 27, 2008 | 3:12 am
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Yeah, that's exactly why I am looking for more RAM. While it's not a big deal to make a remote connection to the desktop most of the time, I would much rather just have more RAM in the laptop and not worry about being able to connect to the desktop.
Looks like Dell Precision m6300 that chrisi1024 mentioned is the only option right now, so I may have to wait a bit.
Looks like Dell Precision m6300 that chrisi1024 mentioned is the only option right now, so I may have to wait a bit.
People who do a lot of statistical analysis of huge data sets need all the memory they can get. Doing that sort of thing on a laptop is of course, not ideal, but in a pinch you have to make do with what you have or can get.
I support a number of folks who do this sort of thing and have office computers with 16+ GB of RAM in them. While they'd like to have that much power in a mobile computer, what they usually end up doing is remoting-in to their desktop computer to do anything intensive.
I support a number of folks who do this sort of thing and have office computers with 16+ GB of RAM in them. While they'd like to have that much power in a mobile computer, what they usually end up doing is remoting-in to their desktop computer to do anything intensive.