Laptops with Big RAM?

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?"

Comments

Re:Dell?

[rizzo420]

i get this strange feeling that this post was made just for more vista bashing. i'm using vista on 1 GB of RAM right now and there's no issues that i've seen with speed. it's just as quick as XP, and actually starts up and shuts down quicker than XP.

i will admit that it sits at about 50% memory usage all the time, but i haven't noticed any slowness. granted, i don't do any vmware stuff. i haven't attempted at firing up any memory intensive programs, other than maybe dreamweaver (which isn't bad from what i can tell). this is also only my second day using it (i did an in place upgrade from XP pro).

my other question is why he's got windows 2003 installed... i imagine he means XP, in which case, maybe he doesn't really know what he's doing? sounds like he didn't even bother trying to find laptops and just wanted to bash vista.

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