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    When will we see fairly priced 2GB RAM stick (for notebook)?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by wobble987, Jun 10, 2006.

  1. wobble987

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    The reason i was asking is because with windows vista will be a RAM hog, and to run game app (bf2142) presumably we need a total of 4GB of RAM, so when will we see the price of the 2gb stick RAM drop?

    my guess is that by the time vista comes out (early 2007) we'll see the price of RAM drop since most computer will come in equiped with bigger ram than it is today; allowing the manufacturer to reduce cost. 'am i correct?
     
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    well not that many laptops can support them, just wait till u need it, 2gb is enought for oblivion so it should be enough for most games, liek hl2 whihc is graphically poor.
     
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    Most of the notebooks out there can only support a max of 2GBs,and that too in dual channel. We'd have to wait a while till 4GB is the standard max for notebooks. The new Acers have that,and so does the high end Toshibas like the P105-S921.
     
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    well.... i'm planning to buy my notebook as soon as the new "santa rosa" platform is out. by the time vista is out it will consume A LOT of RAM (around 700mb)... so for gamers 2-4gigs RAM is ideal.
     
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    wobble987 your basing your ram consumption off a beta edition, Wait till they get it finalised. Early editions of XP had similar ram issues.
     
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    though if they are stating 512 is the minimum, you know more like 1GB is the real minimum
     
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    Well, that might be true, but like every other windows each new version will have more feature, more feature = more ram; and that goes doubly true for vista. I'm pretty sure they will reduce the RAM consumption to about 500+ MB but that still is a lot of RAM, and i suspect the new standard of pc RAM will go to 1GB.
     
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    the 1gb standard is already here.

    it came free with my e1505 and my bro picked up a 600 dollar emachines that came with a gig
     
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    Most of the notebooks out there can only support a max of 2GBs,and that too in dual channel.
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    So does that mean that if I have a notebook that has two pc4200 ram slots that i can't support more than 2 gigs, even if i use 2gb sticks (whenever the price drops)?
     
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    I can remember when the most a machine could hold was 1gig...it wasn't that long ago.
     
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    hmmm.. okay, dell xps m1710 had 4gigs RAM, and next year with 64-bit platform you can be sure that more "gaming" laptop comes with huge memory to take advantage of the new (64-bit) architecture, my question is; will the 2gb RAM stick cost the same ludicrous amount of money next year.

    thanks
     
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    Why play those games in vista when you can still play them on xp? Saves a ton of RAM.

    Talk about vista and the need for more RAM once directX10 games comes out which only vista would be supporting... which wont be out till say another year, then go buy your extra RAM.
     
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    What I can't figure out is this - Linux can look exactly as cool as Windows,but it consumes much much less RAM. Why is that? Does windows' ease-of-use factor consume that big a chunk?
     
    Amol, Jun 11, 2006
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