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Re: Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?

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Post by phaus »

jason_slack wrote: post #7
phaus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got an M17x r3. It has 4 slots for RAM. Alienware gets badmouthed quite a bit, and it really isn't deserved. My M17x is built like a tank and it has an excellent keyboard. The components are also pretty easy to access for upgrades. I suspect many are put off by the way the machine looks, but if you disable the tacky lighting it looks like any other black laptop. It's a great computer, but there are two major dra…

I really like Alienware. It is the weight that gets me. My 15-MBP is already heavy enough.

I really like it too, but I may finally try a Mac when they refresh the retinas. I'll probably get more work done without all of those distracting video games anyways.

Re: Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?

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Post by X4 »

2nd you Sir! That's what I'm also after!! RAM is cheap, very cheap, but I don't want a "DTP." It should have an Apple like quality or better. (I called Apple and they don't offer it, regardless of how much I'd pay extra for it.)

Re: Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?

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Post by X4 »

phaus wrote: post #15
jason_slack wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like Alienware. It is the weight that gets me. My 15-MBP is already heavy enough.

I really like it too, but I may finally try a Mac when they refresh the retinas. I'll probably get more work done without all of those distracting video games anyways.

I also thought that, .1.5 years ago, but where are we? 8GB RAM, sorry that's not enough. Most importantly you cannot upgrade the RAM, SSD or ANYTHING else. Everything is hard soldered and you pay for the most basic stuff like Ethernet extra. People told me it's not possible to install Gentoo or Archlinux on it, is that true?

Re: Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?

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Post by dolphin_man »

svennek wrote: post #5

The Lenovo Thinkpad W530 can have up to 32 GB ram (mine has...)

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with 32gb RAM and a 2.4gh i7-27600QM, and i'm totally in love with it. If you don't need the portability of ultrabooks (and you can't have it + 32gb at the moment), I would recommend it to anyone.

Incidentally, I regularly deploy W530s at work, but usually with 8gb RAM.

Re: Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?

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Post by jason_slack »

phaus wrote: post #15
jason_slack wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like Alienware. It is the weight that gets me. My 15-MBP is already heavy enough.

I really like it too, but I may finally try a Mac when they refresh the retinas. I'll probably get more work done without all of those distracting video games anyways.

I really like my MBP. I am very productive on it. 16GB isn't quite enough when you have a few virtual machines running for things.

Windows 7 for some game dev

CentOS6 for a test webserver before I deploy to production.

OSX as the host running browser, e-mail, XCode, iTunes, iOS Simulator.

I have found so far that an up and coming, unreleased, operating system does dramatically decrease my overall memory usage, so this might help keep 16gb viable for me for a while yet.

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