Will the W3J ever be able to ge uprgaded to 4GB of RAM?

I am so torn right now between which notebook to get, and I have suddenly switched from the XPS M1210 to the upcoming W3J+ which is supposed to come out in the end of June.

However, the one thing that pulls me back to the M1210, even though it has a less powerful GPU, is the fact that it is upgradeable to 4GB of RAM.

I know that much RAM is excessive right now, but would it be possible in the future through any means (BIOS update, etc) to achieve that?

Also, is a 5400 RPM hard drive ok for now and will it be easy to switch it out for a 7200 RPM drive in a year or so?

Thank you for the help.

 

Thats not a fact thats a theory. if the m1210 will ever be modded with 4gb so will EVERY other notebook with the same chipset. Dunno what an m1210 is but i guess its powered by core duo which makes it just as upgradeable as the w3j. if 2gb so-dimms were ever made available then that would be a fact provided the manufacturer bios supported it. For now its a theory. The dell is no more guaranteed to support that then any other dual core.

 

Well then why does Dell have the option to customize an XPS M1210 with 4GB right on their site?

 

For the same reason that it costs 3000$ to do so and probably why it says "delayes your ship date". My guess is as good as yours but dell can prolly count on his fingers how many people ordered these 3000$ modules and how many actually shipped. These modules will not be mainstream for many many moons.

 

Haha, I did think that it was kind of funny that someone would actually pay $3000 for currently useless RAM.

Anyway, I have been looking at getting the W3J from a store called "c9tech" because that's the only place I can find it.

If I ordered it within the next few weeks do you think I will be able to have it by the 1st week of August?

-Thanks.

 

c9tech does not have it in stock and prolly wont. Between us powernotebooks and proportable we bought all 120 pieces. the only way anyone else is getting any is if more inventory becomes available which may happen by end of month

Open your eyes man! Your missing alot!

Dude! are you blind? No offense if you are. There are only 2 sites that list them in stock. c9 is not one of them.

 

Well yeah I know that it would just be a preorder type thing from them, and would you mind sharing the 2 places where I could order one of these?

 

Jesus....I give up. Next...........

 

lol.....geared2play.com, powernotebooks.com, and proportable.com have them in stock. they allow 4 gigs ram on the xps b/c dell's bios probably supports it.

 

Rofl. Are you for real man?

 

Yes I'm "for real", I know about geared2play but the prices for what I want are too high there, I can get a better machine for less at places such as GenTech.

 

In fact, it's looking as if I probably will order from GenTech, I can get the W3J with 2GB of RAM and the T2500 for just about $1800US even.

 

I think you are mistaken though, To offer a better price on a product i think you actually have to have it in stock. As far as i know our price and gentech price are the same no? Only diff is we actually have them.....Your jumping around from c9 to gentech. Both can be found on notebookforums. Why dont you talk to them directly and see what they have and what they dont have. if you were talking about a customised w3j then yes we charge more. We can do that becuase we back it with OUR built on asus warranty. Who else does that in writing?

 

What i meant was, eddie already told you the 3 retailers that had them, but then you said:

so I asked, if you were for real because you cant read.

 

Well sorry I missed that, it was a simple mistake, no need to be a smartass about it.

 

eVvery one is a smart ass here. Even my self. I am the smartest actually or so i hear

 

true that. lets not fight and be w3j friends.

 

I would have to agree, I have a Dell Precision 470 at work it has Dual Xeon processors Twin HDDS and I thought getting extra ram would make it run better on large photoshop drawings........

I was wrong, with 4GB and windows XP it actually page filled more!!! it was a massive dissaponitment, windows XP does not utlilize 4GB ram, you need XP64 Edition or Vista, which is still a way off.

So unless you have a 64bit, OS that will utlize more RAM, I wouldnt bother looking for 4GB.

 

probably just need a bios update, in theory yes

 

I think it is more than that, it is more about the OS, windows XP just does not utilize more than 2 gb RAM

When we installed the RAM our IT guy had to fiddle with the settings in windows just so it would even recognise the extra RAM

Once it was up and runnung, Photoshop working on large files (750mb 20layered LZW, RLE compressed Tiff which opens up using 2gb RAM) it actually performed worse than with only 2GB RAM! it was page filing (using the HDD as virtual RAM) more and using less RAM?? not happy, but then that could also be a photoshop problem as it will also only use 2GB RAM, nut I was hoping that photoshop would use more RAM and windows would use the extra 2GB, but with 4GB installed it seemed to only use 2GB and page filled even more.

 

4GB of ram???

Unless you're a programmer or something along those lines you will never use it all.

2GB is plenty.

 

LOL

Eddie you're hilarious and I'll back you up on the smartest smart ass comment.



As for the smartass comment from the other guy, WE DON'T DO THAT AROUND HERE ON THESE FORUMS SO PLEEEEEEEEEEASE CONTROL YOURSELF.

This is a very civilized community we have going here. So much so that sometimes I feel like I'm having conversations with a bunch of intellectuals.