Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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?"

3 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dell? by illegalcortex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you bother even looking at the summary? The poster clearly asks about laptops with MORE than 4GB of RAM.

  2. Stop Suggesting alternate Platforms, OSes, Tools by haplo21112 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think its pretty safe to assume that given the initial info the user is probably doing Windows development. Thats really only going to work on a x86 or x86_64 machine running windows, and windows development tools. Anything else is just fracturing the issue, and not contributing to a solution. Face it Open Source, MAC, Unix, and all the rest are wonderful, but some of us....ALOT of us are stuck in a WinTel world.

    --
    Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
  3. Posted from a XPx64-Windows by empaler · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd better be damned sure that the HW manufacturers support the devil, otherwise it's a bumpy ride. Even moreso than a normal Windows Experience.