8GB has arrived?

This dude has a loaded T61p. I wonder if Lenovo is planning to offer a similar package.

 

Ouch... at $456 for a 4GB dimm, I'm not going to be getting this any time soon.

 

who the hell needs 8gb ram??????????

 

I'd love 8GB (and on the desktop it's affordable) but the main purpose would be virtualizing multiple operating systems at the same time.

 

As with all new gadgets and technology, you'll see the price drop in a few months

 

Nice! Good to know the the SA platform can do it.

 

Strange. Intel's technical documents claim the chipset can only support 4 GB of memory.

I believe Montevina only supports 4 GB as well, at least on paper.

 

I find that the Intel datasheet is not always right for some reason , for example, the GL 960 chipset can only support up 2 GB, but people are able to use 3 GB or more.

 

Good to know. I'm very curious as to the logic behind that.

Intel's processor datasheets are always spot on.

 

With what I'm seeing lately, their datasheets are definitely not spot on.

Lenovo G410 users are posting evidences that their GL 960 chipset is running 3 GB of RAM, now we see another SA user posting 8 GB.

 

I would take it

 

I HAVE an intel document saying the 965 mobile chipset supports 8 GB of RAM....

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

 

Haha nice find!

This is probably a more updated version because I've seen the one ssnseawolf stated that was written 4 GB. Either way, it's good to know.

 

Yeah cause a lot of systems with the 965 chipset offer 8 GB as an upgrade.

With the falling prices of RAM/flash memory/whatever you wanna call it, it's not that I'd buy this NOW, it's great cause it's future proof, and I'd be able to upgrade in like two/three years.

 

I just took another look at that document and in my sleepy haze discovered it was made before Santa Rosa was even released.

Apparently Intel's prerelease documentation is more accurate than their current information.

Huh.

 

Are ya' sure? Cause that seems interesting........

I guess there's only one real way to find out, but until I have 500 bucks to throw away (well $1k actually), I'll just wait and see..

 

Thats whats people said 5 years ago when I got 1 gig and now 4 is nothing lol. Price wise it is not effective though but I bet windows 7 will need 8 gigs of ram following vistas trend.

 

DDR3 will take over soon

Faster RAM clocks will benefit more than larger RAM size.

 

you should ask yourself that question again. why wouldnt you? I spent and entire summer savings back in the day to put all my 30pin ram sticks on a simm tree just to get 4MB of ram total.

"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of RAM!?" B.Gates '81