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Maybe one day, the chipset gods at Intel will see fit to bless us with a 13" ultrabook that has 32GB of RAM. I can't tell if it's Intel restricting it, but it'
by CoolGuySteve 7y ago
Maybe one day, the chipset gods at Intel will see fit to bless us with a 13" ultrabook that has 32GB of RAM.
I can't tell if it's Intel restricting it, but it's suspicious to me that every manufacturer simultaneously agreed to not ship larger RAM configurations in this form factor.
- smerrill 7y agoThis XPS 13 is available with 32 GB RAM.
- arthurcolle 7y agoThey probably don't want to do it because then everyone will complain that the battery life is garbage. My specced out 16 GB MBP barely gets 4 hours without being plugged in.
- zozbot234 7y agoWhy aren't hardware/motherboard vendors using RAM hotplug to power down some of the RAM when unused and save that battery life? OS's support RAM hotplug already because it's needed for server use cases, the one missing bit is hardware support.
- jadbox 7y agoThe developer model has an option for 32gb! https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-XPS-13-DE-Icelake-2020 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-XPS... EDIT: the 32gb model isn't available for sale until next month I think
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoOh wow, so the arstechnica article is mistaken. This is great news.
- swozey 7y agoMy 2019 XPS 13 2 in 1 has 32gb and an i7, it's a little power house except it's thermals are terrible and it will throttle quickly if you don't throttlestop it. My MBP work machine has 16gb so I definitely feel limited there. The ultrabooks you want to watch at are the XPS 7390 2-in-1. HP Spectre x360 and Lenovo c940. I don't believe the latter 2 offer 32GB right now but I'm guessing they will eventually since the Dell has it now.