kingston releases 800 Mhz 4GB SO-DIMMs

[gator]

Finally!
http://www.techpowerup.com/62780/Kingst ... DIMMs.html

edit: I got too excited, this is only 2 x 2 GB as ShoTTa35 clarifies.

[SHoTTa35]

wait, i think you're getting the wrong idea there gator

These are 2 x 2GB chips - just "high performance" (whatever that means).

The last time i saw anything about 2 x 4GB chips it was said to cost about $500 for the kit.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820146588

that's a single 4GB stick for $300. Granted it's for servers but making it for laptops is just as expensive.

[t20user]

What are you guys doing that requires so much RAM on your laptop? I have 4GB (3GB under XP) on my main work desktop and I have never seen usage over 1.5GB in the performance task manager. The biggest RAM hog on all of my machines is Firefox.

[gator]

t20user, I typically don't use more than 600-700 MB of RAM, but when I run matlab simulations I do need lots more. Many users use photoshop and other video editiing tools that suck up RAM like there is no tomorrow

Then there are games, you know ...

[erik]

video chipsets can slurp up some of your memory, too, since many of them (including discreet chipsets) use system memory to add to their own.

the quadro FX 3700 that i have in my thinkstation has 512MB dedicated and reserves 2GB of system memory for when it's needed.

[SHoTTa35]

hmm looks like i was wrong a bit too

http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configu ... L-TP667/4G

They are $625 for 1 stick so it would cost $1250 for 8GB of RAM.

at least we know it works though:

http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/arc ... f-ram.aspx

Sweet!!

[ajkula66]

Price of RAM that equals the price for the rest of the machine...

Thanks, I can wait...