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

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Post by dluchian »

phaus wrote: post #29
dluchian wrote: post #24

Most of the high-end Sager notebooks do. None of that tacky alienware crap.

Alienware laptops look normal if you turn the lighting off, or switch the color to white. They also completely destroy Sager as far as build quality goes. Sager laptops are rebranded Clevos. Clevos give you decent components for a good price, but they have horrible keyboards (almost to the point of defectiveness) and generally mediocre build quality.

Alienware laptops were also rebranded Clevos until they got bought by Dell. Now they're rebranded Dells. Twice the weight, twice the price, big flashy alien skull, and that's about it. Build quality is perfectly fine for Sagers, and if the "defective keyboards" bother you, you can just swap with a better one. Not to mention the keyboard on an AW I used a while back so uneven it felt like rubbing a camel's back.

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

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Post by phaus »

dluchian wrote: post #31
phaus wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alienware laptops look normal if you turn the lighting off, or switch the color to white. They also completely destroy Sager as far as build quality goes. Sager laptops are rebranded Clevos. Clevos give you decent components for a good price, but they have horrible keyboards (almost to the point of defectiveness) and generally mediocre build quality.

Alienware laptops were also rebranded Clevos until they got bought by Dell. Now they're rebranded Dells. Twice the weight, twice the price, big flashy alien skull, and that's about it. Build quality is perfectly fine for Sagers, and if the "defective keyboards" bother you, you can just swap with a better one. Not to mention the keyboard on an AW I used a while back so uneven it felt like rubbing a camel's back.

When Alienware were rebranded clevos, they sucked and they cost an astronomical amount of money. Dell's XPS series, when it was their top of the line gaming series, were amazing. Now, Alienware computers are built to the same standard that the XPS gaming laptops were, and it's a high standard.

My M17x had the fastest video card available and it was only 1800. That's not really that expensive for what it was.

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

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Post by SamReidHughes »

X4 wrote: post #20
svennek wrote: post #5

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

Are Lenovo's still having the quality they were known for year ago? (I haven't looked into them for quite some time.)

The quality is better than it was before.

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

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Post by akama »

phaus wrote: post #29
dluchian wrote: post #24

Most of the high-end Sager notebooks do. None of that tacky alienware crap.

Alienware laptops look normal if you turn the lighting off, or switch the color to white. They also completely destroy Sager as far as build quality goes. Sager laptops are rebranded Clevos. Clevos give you decent components for a good price, but they have horrible keyboards (almost to the point of defectiveness) and generally mediocre build quality.

On my personal laptop which is a 15" Sager, I find that the keyboard is decent. It doesn't feel as good as typing on a high end mechanical keyboard but I find it is fine for a laptop.

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

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Post by digitalzombie »

X4 wrote: post #20
svennek wrote: post #5

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

Are Lenovo's still having the quality they were known for year ago? (I haven't looked into them for quite some time.)

Hmmm I bought a T400? And it lasted for 8ish years IIRC.

Due to my stupidity I killed it ( I forgot how, it was probably so stupid that I had to erase it from my memory).

I bought a refub T510 (2-3 years ago IIRC), there's a dead pixel near the middle of the screen and the headphone jack is going out. There is some flex at the speaker area and cd area, and the power adapter gets hot often (it might be the linux distro drawing too much power for some reason).

I think the quality went down hill...

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

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Post by digitalzombie »

jdietrich wrote: post #22
X4 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are Lenovo's still having the quality they were known for year ago? (I haven't looked into them for quite some time.)

Lenovo seem to be doing it sensibly - the core Thinkpad line is still very well made, cheaper (and more cheaply made) products are offered under the Edge and Ideapad brands.

There's a fake thinkpad which they took an ideapad and rebranded as a thinkpad. It was horrible.

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

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Post by X4 »

phaus wrote: post #27
X4 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The 15" retina allowed an upgrade to 16GB, I can only hope that the new 13" will also allow it.

I don't know, I called the Apple hotline twice to ask if more RAM is possible or using a better SSD like the ones Intel makes, but they said: Sorry that's no possible.

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

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Post by phaus »

phaus wrote: post #27
X4 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The 15" retina allowed an upgrade to 16GB, I can only hope that the new 13" will also allow it.

To clarify, I mean that you can get one with 16GB, you can't upgrade it afterwards unless I'm mistaken.

Ram is so cheap that Apple should really consider making 16GB the standard for all rMBPs with an option to increase to 32 for the 15".

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

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Post by SamReidHughes »

digitalzombie wrote: post #36
X4 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are Lenovo's still having the quality they were known for year ago? (I haven't looked into them for quite some time.)

Hmmm I bought a T400? And it lasted for 8ish years IIRC. Due to my stupidity I killed it ( I forgot how, it was probably so stupid that I had to erase it from my memory). I bought a refub T510 (2-3 years ago IIRC), there's a dead pixel near the middle of the screen and the headphone jack is going out. There is some flex at the speaker area and cd area, and the power adapter gets hot often (it might be the linux distr…

Your T400 definitely didn't last 8 years.
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