Microsoft has 64 bit versions for a lot of their products. But 64 usage has not gone mainstream. I understand why the are not going beyonnd the 2gb, but it's hard to understand why they are not supporting 4gb.
----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:57:11 PM Subject: Re: Virtualization and System speed 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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
