Since when could you get 8gigs of ram in a laptop?

I was just looking at the EUROCOM M57RU DIVINE-X and it looks like you can upgrade from the standard 2x1gig to 2x4gigs for ~$1400 lol. I haven't seen any 4gig ram sticks anywhere until now but it looks like they're coming. I bet a year from now you can probably pick one up for 100 bucks or so.

 

they are VERY new..... i've yet to see one IRL....

but will SOON

later,
bigO

 

I don't see why any normal computer user would need that much ram. Then again, 8 years ago I couldn't fathom how anyone would fill up a 80 GB hard drive.

 

LMAO@jd1010

yeah 10 years ago 4 gig was highly expensive and they advertised it as "extremely spacious"

 

Yeah I remember the first computer I ever got.

Pentium 166 MHz
64 MB RAM
4 GB Hard Drive.

Absolutley HUGE hard drive space.

Oh and as for 8 GB of RAM, check this out:

http://www.intel.com/business/casestudies/proof_of_concepts_dcs.pdf

"Supports 8GB of Memory
The Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family supports a main memory
size up to 8GB."

"36-Bit FSB enables full 4GB memory addressability and capability to scale up to 8GB memory (pending SODIMM module validation)"

 

They weren't that expensive here in the U.S.. A 4 gig drive came with my families Packard Bell and I was filling it up like crazy.

I can't remember if it came with 16 or 32 MB of RAM... I remember being so excited a few years later when I upgraded it to 64MB of RAM.

I still have an old Mac SE... The specs on that are too low to even discuss.

I'm saving it and preserving so that one day archeologists can dig it up and try to figure out what all the symbols mean. They will think that the apple is out god, and we worship the holy Crystal Quest .

 

unless your using a 64 bit os the computer wont even register 4 gigs forget 8. i personaly think the praticality of 4 gigs alone is ridicilious can you honestly use all of it ?

 

I remember the first time I did a virus scan on my Windows 95 machine the threats reached triple digits.

 

i remember my first computer....

an old Commodore 64,, w/ a tapedrive... took 30 minutes to load a 30K program.... but back in the day... it was cool... then i bought 2 FLOPPY drives for it @ 350 each.... those were the days

 

The 4gb pc5300 memory cards are made by samsung memory. They are generic brand, so they are the best you are going to get at the moment. Memory rebranders and makers will not get these chips for sometime since their is a very limited supply and demand for 4gb chips. This is why you can only get generic brand right now.

K-TRON

 

Yo how old r u guys??????

 

i only dream of the giant floppy disks and the punch cards =( ... sigh good times.. my first computer windows 3.1

 

Micron makes them too, just that availability is more limited than the Samsung ones.

http://www.micron.com/products/partdetail?part=MT16HTS51264HY-667

 

Windows Seven will be designed to use no more resources than Vista does, so whoever buys 8GB in preparation for the next Windows isn't very smart.

 

if i told you i'd have to kill you j/k,, i'd have my robot do it!

 

LOL. Yes of course, will not use more than Vista. LOL.

 

^^^ Of course, everyone has a right to be skeptical for good reasons; however, Microsoft is taking a completely different development and PR approach with concocting Windows Seven. We'll see.

 

10 years ago?? i was using 4GB....








3.5" Hard drive!

 

8 Gigs would be aimed at the photo and DVD editing crowd..on the go. I guess you build it and they will come?

 

You won't need 8gigs of ram for editing standard definition movies... it might be useful for 1080p high def films though.

 

8 Gb of memory right now is not needed,and MUCH too expensive.
Give it 1 year,DDR3 will be mainstream by then.

 

I don't see how having 8GB+ will hurt...it's sexxy...like having a Ferrari Enzo as ur personal ride...u know u can't reach the top speed in ur neighbourhood or city but hey...it's nice and sexxy to have that much power under the hood. One day u might just go crazy and feel the need to have a rush and touch the throttle if u know what i mean....

I say..if u have the money to get it..get it!

 

The thing is, you have to know how to drive the Ferrari properly and you need the long flat straight roads to take advantage of it...

 

Well, you could load an OS onto your RAM, and still run windows alongside it XD

 

Centrino 2 supports 8GB, and hopefully Calpella will support 16GB!