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Dell M4500 Laptop - 16gb of Ram?

post #1 of 14
2/22/11 at 11:17am
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I'm hoping someone can help me out. We have 2 of the Dell M4500 ordered. However I can't see myself paying the exorbitant amount of money Dell wants for the 16gb of ram.

Can anyone recommend a place to get 2x 8GB DDR SoDimms?

Here is the link to the laptop in case you're curious

http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise...b&s=biz&cs=555

Thanks

Josh
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post #2 of 14
2/22/11 at 11:27am
8GB RAM modules are exorbitantly expensive anyway, but I did find a site that sells 16GB in 2x8GB modules at half Dell's price. I've never heard of them, though, so I can't guarantee anything.

edit: nevermind, it was DDR2, not DDR3. I'll keep looking
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post #3 of 14
2/22/11 at 11:28am
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Thanks... That's different memory though. Thats DDR2 and its 8x 2gb modules..

I appreciate the help though
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post #4 of 14
2/22/11 at 11:29am
8GB modules are tough to find You might want to shoot Crucial a mail and see if they have it.

cheers ...
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post #5 of 14
2/22/11 at 11:30am
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Thanks.. I just sent them an email. Haven't heard back from them yet though.. Figured I'd see what else was out there.
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post #6 of 14
2/22/11 at 4:18pm
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
8GB modules are tough to find You might want to shoot Crucial a mail and see if they have it.

cheers ...
Just got word back from them that they don't have it. They didn't even know it supported 16gb at first.
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post #7 of 14
2/22/11 at 5:52pm
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Originally Posted by JoshFink View Post
Just got word back from them that they don't have it. They didn't even know it supported 16gb at first.
Sure they do. They post it on their configuration dialog.

http://www.crucial.com/upgrade/compa...4500/list.html

cheers ...
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post #8 of 14
2/22/11 at 6:18pm
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
Sure they do. They post it on their configuration dialog.

http://www.crucial.com/upgrade/compa...4500/list.html

cheers ...
They just updated it.
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post #9 of 14
2/22/11 at 7:32pm
I look at newegg for one, Ebay maybe
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post #10 of 14
6/5/11 at 5:45am

Wow! Do you think you'll ever need 16gb's of RAM though?daz.gif

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post #11 of 14
6/18/11 at 7:51pm

It is now updated to 4gb of RAM at minimum. and made it 16GB to the maximum.

I wonder how it is performing now.

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post #12 of 14
6/19/11 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by jaydeee View Post

It is now updated to 4gb of RAM at minimum. and made it 16GB to the maximum.

I wonder how it is performing now.



You probably will not see much of a difference between 4-16 unless you use apps that take advantage of the extra ram

cheers ...
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post #13 of 14
11/26/12 at 6:32am
Old thread, but I am currently looking at doing this, and now it's doable for under $80!

My primary reason is the programming apps that I use are memory hogs and they straddle Win7/WinXP compatibility lines. To get around this I run VM's. In some cases I run up to 2 VM's at once. Combine this with the memory usage of these apps, I am running out of RAM with 8GB.
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post #14 of 14
11/26/12 at 12:05pm

Jesus, nice necro. Well for future generations.

CORSAIR Vengeance DDR3 SO-DIMM

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233265

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