On 5/31/07, Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am really disappointed that most laptops are limited to 2gb of ram. Lenovo has a notebook that has a max of 4gb. Personally I would like to see a laptop has a even larger ram capacity. It would be nice to see a laptop that and take 8 or 10gb of ram. I am not really sure why laptop companies only support 2gb of ram. I have heard that one reason is because more ram equals greater power consumption. The laptops that support 4gb or ram use 2 2gb sims. So issue is in the bios I believe. --- rbw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > rbw wrote: > >> So the increase in RAM would be a bigger factor > that the increase to > >> 2 virtual CPU's and the lower overhead of XEN? > > > > Definitely. RAM is always the first thing you > should look at when a > > machine needs to be faster because when a machine > gets "bogged down" > > you are almost always waiting on the machine to > swap. > > > > > > > That's what I was thinking so the notebook models I > am looking at are > able to go to 4GB of RAM... I am also going to take > a stab at no swap > and see if that can eliminate that whole area of > concern. That is also > why I am wondering about the impact of CPU(s) and > RAM increases to > overall system performance (I do realize I'm asking > for a stab at this > question as opposed to an answer certain so any > speculation is welcome). > > rbw
I'm guessing here, but since most laptops are designed with XP in mind, IIRC, XP can only handle 4GB. Therefore, there's no real reason to have a laptop designed to have more RAM. -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 619-368-0099 * software development * systems/database administration * networking * security * -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
