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Laptops with Big RAM?

Posted by Cliff on from the beyond-the-2Gb-barrier dept.

Fubari wonders: "Anybody know when laptops over 4gb might be coming out? Some of the dev-tools I want to run are just obscene RAM-pigs. On the desktop I'm using now (Win2003), it sucks up 1.6gb just to boot. By the time I log in and start doing work, it is stretching 2Gb. Move that to Vista, add a VM-Ware session or two, and I'm worried I'll be pushing 4Gb. I'm torn between buying a 4Bb-max laptop now, or some mini-desktop that can fit in a set of luggage wheels. A friend of mine suggested something like this, but my first choice would be something designed to be portable. Any suggestions?"

2 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Harder than you think by HardCase · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh crap, here I am replying to my own post. Where I said 2GB, please substitute 4GB instead. D'oh!

  2. Re:Thinkpad by ckaminski · · Score: 3, Informative

    Please explain again the usefulness of Windows XP 64bit edition, then?

    <quote>
    Description of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is a near feature-complete version of Windows XP Professional that runs on x64 processors. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports 128 GB of RAM and 16 terabytes of virtual memory address space, as compared to 4 GB of both physical RAM and virtual memory address space for 32-bit Windows XP Professional.

    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition runs 32-bit applications in the Windows on Windows 64 (WOW64) subsystem providing compatibility with the more than 10,000 existing 32-bit Windows applications while enabling new 64-bit applications.
    </quote>

    <Url:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/64bi t/russel_exploringx64.mspx>
    <url:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/over view.mspx>