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Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM?
ericatcw writes "Do you love the smooth, silky performance of a multi-core PC loaded to the gills with the fastest RAM? Take a look at Dell's new Precision T7500 desktop. According to Computerworld, the T7500 will come with 12 memory slots that can accommodate 16 GB of PC-106000 (1333 MHz) DDR3 RAM for a total of 192 GB. Dell's not the only one — Lenovo, Cisco (with blade servers reportedly up to 384 GB in memory) and Apple are all bringing out computers that leverage Intel's new Nehalem architecture to enable unprecedented amounts of RAM. But beware! Despite the depressed DRAM market, loading up on memory could see the cost of RAM eclipse the cost of the rest of your PC by 20-fold or more."
to run Vista. Finally h/w is catching up!!
Eclipse PDE and Me
at last, with 192GB ram, I can finally use Firefox.
Uhh, yeah. Try 1000-fold! You know, since we're just making things up.
That's not true. 95% of all quoted statistics are accurate ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I can finally run like thousands of useless linux instances. =P
You got the touch!
Well sure, 75% of those surveyed knew that!
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So by that metric, Apple will probably want in the order of $100,000 for their offering, given their attitudes towards RAM pricing. Of course, the Apple faithful will still defend it as being "higher quality", "but it's fully buffered and ECC", but yet recommending despite these details, "that no-one who knows /anything/ buys their RAM from Apple".
As my computer instructor said in 1991, the 4GB address space of a 32-bit CPU is all that you will ever need. Now that I have a computer with a 64-bit CPU/OS and 4GB RAM, I find it hard to justify upgrading more RAM (unless the price for another 4GB is dirt cheap) since running out of memory is not an issue.
-40 is less than 10, after all,
Yes, but at least it's the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
...640 GB should be enough for anybody.
Trolling is a art,
Most assuredly, your morally lax computer will get the RAM a little too drunk and have its way...
Windows 8
Just think of how many Xterms you can open on that machine!
No sig today...
But after booting he will notice there is no more RAM free for applications.
Want to hear the voice of GOD? cat
Memory Testing: 1K OK
... 5 hours later
:)
Memory Testing: 201326592K OK
Yea no thanks
5/4 of people have trouble with fractions.
Take a piece of paper and fold it 20 times... it will be 1,048,576 times as thick.
20 fold is 2^20
so.. (2 ** 20) * $1800 == 1.887436800 Billion Dollars
So..somebody is wrong. Didn't read TFA to tell whether it is you or the article.
I like to run a 64-bit version of Python and make a really big list. Or, you can run Java programs (for a while) with GC disabled.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
no sorry DNFE requires 500 GB of ram
No.
Just 5.477 orders of magnitude more RAM.
Seriously, if they'd just pushed a little harder they could have supported 1337 MHz RAM. I don't know what geek wouldn't have jumped at that.
Author of Enyo: Up and Running from O'Reilly Media
Load the whole OS into ramdisk at bootup. Then have fun.
The whole OS? Most /.ers could load their entire porn collection into ramdisk with 192GB.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
Yes, but 27.68 % of the people who have trouble with fractions think they understand statistics.
"He is so stupid. And now back to the wall!" Moe Szyslak
Combo breaker!
A good education is a bit like a STD - it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and gives you a desire to spread it.
With this much RAM, the only reason to have a HDD is for incremental backup, just in case my computer freezes... Oh wait, I'm running Windo[BSOD]
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Now turn in your geek card.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
.. next year they'll be releasing an upgrade to Istanbul..
Not Constantinople?
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
and 2.629% of comments are so-called "Combo breaker"s. About 90% of them work ;). In other news: 2.6.29% of people don't understand decimal points, oddly enough.
$ make available