what laptops are able to have more than 2GB of ram? - Page 2

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../features.mspx

Supports up to 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM and up to two symmetric multiprocessors.

That's 32bit, btw. 64bit XP supports 128 GBs of RAM.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...cts/top10.mspx

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports up to 128 gigabytes (GB) of RAM and 16 terabytes of virtual memory.

I stand corrected!

I was also doing some research and found this little gem of a discussion on actually using more than 2gig of ram in win 32bit.

http://bink.nu/forums/8805/ShowPost.aspx

I was wondering why everyone wa saying the XP only supports 2gb? Ever since it has been out it has been able to hold up to 4gb, though you won't be able to use all 4gb that is installed. I think XP ends up letting you use about 3.5GB of it, I can't remember exactly why.

Either way, there isn't much use for 4GB for 99% of the laptop users out there for XP. Oh, and as for the comment that Vista is going to use 800MB just to run, that's just the bloated Beta's, the production version won't use nearly that much to actually run. My guess it it'll use about 200-400mb to run, since 512mb is the minimum and 1gb is recommended.Could be a little more but I would be VERY suprised it it was more than 500mb. Very. Either way Vista is going to be pretty cool. That's why I'm stepping up to Merom as soon as it comes out so I can put Vista on my E1505 as soon as it comes out.

question is why do you need 4GB?


1gb is enough
2gb if you have money to spend

I wont have a laptop with Vista for atleast a year following it's release (although my desktop will have it fairly soon following it's release). They haven't even announced when the basic every day software (anti-virus and things of that nature) will be released. To get the features you really want it's going to cost an estimated 350$ for the "best" version of Vista give or take plus to take full advantage of all the eye candy vista's all about you will probably need a newer video card.

I'm not saying dont go buy it because it IS going to kick ass, but there's a lot that has to happen for it to enter the "logical buy" realm in my mind.

The biggest reason im looking forward to its release is all the hardware that is Amazing for XP and games that are out right now, and coming out in the near future, is going to drop in price making that "Dream Rig" less of a dream and more a reality.

Somebody will find a way to eat 4GB easily. Most likely Microsoft, in this arena. Anyone else remember Gates telling us that 640K was more than anyone would ever use?

I find myself wishing for more than the 24GB (yes, twenty four GB) that I'm currently playing with. Of course that's an 8 CPU Sun Ultrasparc system running a lot of hefty loads (database and app and web servers in various Solaris containers) so that's not really a big machine by their standards. They have one box that maxxes at 576GB of memory. It costs more than my house. And the neighbors on both sides of me. And the neighbors across the street, too. Combined.

Getting back to the real world, Microsoft has always found ways to eat up any CPU and memory you can offer them. When Gates bought the original DOS from Seattle Computer Works, it fit on low density floppies. Uncompressed. Go to "Add/Remove Programs" and look at the size of Windows XP components now. Many are bigger than the 10 megabyte hard disk in the original IBM PC-XT. It keeps getting bigger and bigger. The limiting factor seems to be what can be done for about $800 on the desktop. If memory prices come down so that you can build an $800 desktop with 4GB of memory, Microsoft will gladly use it all.

Fortunately it's now a bit pricey to put 4GB in a PC, so that's limiting the audience and demand for even bigger bloatware.

Incidently, Solaris from Sun runs better than Windows in limited memory systems. Linux does pretty well, too.