How much RAM does your current laptop have? - 2014 edition

8+8+4+4=24GB on Asus G750.


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I wanted to wait until we had more votes, but I'm not sure we'll get them, so I did a quick comparison chart between this poll and the old. Most NBR members run twice to four times the amount of RAM they had i their notebooks five years ago:


4 GB used to be the norm, now it is 8 GB followed rather closely by 16 GB. Also one little detail, I put more than 16 GB from 2010 into the other category as there was no way to know whether it was 32 GB or less, the amount of people who were running > 16 GB wasn't really significant anyways compared to the amount of people we have with 32+ GB right now.

 

Speaking personally I maxed out my HDX five years ago 8 GB or ram but don't think I ever really pushed it anywhere near that limit due to the limitation of other components.

I immediately did the same upgrade when I go my Precision but so far only one program I have has managed to max my ram and that was After Effects. It can easily gobble up as much ram as you can throw at it.

I also believe Cinema 4D could do this, but I'm not nearly proficient enough with that program to push it that far. The closest second from the Adobe CC was Photoshop at 9 GB using its 3D.

 

One thing to note - 32 GB or more is really just 32 GB right now - as far as I'm aware, no laptop on the market currently supports more than 32 GB of RAM.

The "or more" is intended to cover the extremely slim chances of Broadwell being released before the end of November and supporting 16 GB SODIMMs or Clevo releasing an 8 SODIMM slot version of the P270WM.

 

the big Clevo workstation with the desktop Xeon can run 64 but no current intel mobile CPU does at this time..... amusingly from what I read the AMD APU's however will.

if you can find or want to expend the cash for those ultra rare 16GB SODIMMS. it is the same memory also used in the new Mac Pro to give it 64. ( current cost is about $$350 each )

 

Seriously? 16GB SODIMMS? Never seen that before.

 

DRAM Memory Modules | 16 Gigabyte DDR3 unbuffered DIMMs | Intelligent Memory

 

Per my signature, I'm using 8GB (maximum amount that my Acer 5930G supports chipset-wise, although 'officially', Acer said 4GB is the max).

Thinking of getting a new laptop in about 2 or 3 months from now.
That one will probably be a i7 quad core with 32GB RAM and GTX 870M (but I might wait a bit if better gpu's will be released).

 

for work, I use about 12-13/16GB
for my own use, I rarely go over 4GB.

Don't plan on upgrading, especially since my laptop does not accept over 16GB.

 

On a different note, I recent'y upgraded to 16Gb (2x8Gb) of 2400Mhz Trident X for my desktop. Doesn't feel like it did diddly squat compared to 1600mhz, though I do guess the odd slowdown is not as severe as before.

 

Wow. That's very cool. Hopefully they drop price in the next year and I can pick two up.

 

16GiB here, probably more to do with the laptop being supplied with just one 8GB SO-DIMM and having to use another 8GB module for dual channel.

With higher density SDRAM chips, such as Marecki_clf posted, I don't see technically why Haswell would not be able to support 32GiB SO-DIMM if density doubled again so 64GiB for 2 slots and 128GiB for 4 slots. Would also depend on BIOS not hard coding a limit too.

 

That's because you already reached your machines point of diminishing return. Like any computer system you'll only see an improvement if there's a bottle neck somewhere in the system. You obviously don't have one, at least not in your ram.

 

I use 16GB, which is the max my L440 can take. It's used for VMware labs for home and also for work, where I'm the LabTech and ConnectWise administrator.

 

I have 32GB. People say its overkill but I have found uses for it with virtualization and ram disks to save wear on my SSDs.

I put 32GB in the desktop PC too.

It just seemed silly not to when its not *that* much more expensive than 16GB right now.

 

16gb in my e6530

 

16gb.

I can get by just fine with 8gb. But ram is cheap.

I'd expect most people to have the same experience... They look at what they NEED, quickly realize that buying the next higher capacity isn't that much more expensive, and end up buying the higher capacity for that reason.

 

12gB in my T420 (also upgraded to a i7-26070qm). Added a 8gB stick with my factory 4gB stick, plan on adding another 8gB stick eventually.