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Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?

12 points by jason_slack 13y ago

I have a current MBP (non-retina) with 16gb of RAM. Does anyone know of a laptop that supports 32gb (or more) of RAM?

slashdotaccount 13y ago
Acer Aspire V3-772G-747a321.26TBDWakk (NX.M8SEG.007) – 1500€ Acer Aspire V3-771G-736b321.26TBDWaii, grey (NX.M1WEG.095) – 1550€ Toshiba Qosmio X70-A-11R (PSPLTE-01801DGR) – 2950€ MSI GT70SR2-x80M43237BWR Dragon Edition (001763-SKU10) – 3700€ MSI GT70SR2-x80M43237BW (001763-SKU11) – 3710€
booop 13y ago
MSI GT60 for 15.4" ASUS G750, MSI GT70 for 17"
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- jason_slack 13y ago
  That is not a laptop, though.
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    - jason_slack 13y ago
      You originally said a Mac Pro, that isn't a laptop, sorry for not clarifying.
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jamesjguthrie 13y ago
Some Dell Alienware laptops support 32GB, e.g. the Alienware 18 can be configured for 32GB http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n00aw843&model_id=alienware-18&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1 http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n00a...
- phaus 13y ago
  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 drawbacks. The first is battery life. With the dGPU enabled, it gets about 65 minutes. Any machine with such a powerful GPU is going to be about the same. It's more like 2-3 hours using the iGPU. The second downside is the extreme weight. The device itself weighs about ten pounds, and it's accompanied by the largest AC adapter I've ever seen. The adapter itself probably weights at least 3-4 lbs. Other than that, it's amazing.
  - jason_slack 13y ago
    I really like Alienware. It is the weight that gets me. My 15-MBP is already heavy enough.
    - phaus 13y ago
      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.
      - X4 13y ago
        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?
svennek 13y ago
The Lenovo Thinkpad W530 can have up to 32 GB ram (mine has...)
- jason_slack 13y ago
  Thanks, this looks interesting.
- dolphin_man 13y ago
  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.
- X4 13y ago
  Are Lenovo's still having the quality they were known for year ago? (I haven't looked into them for quite some time.)
  - jdietrich 13y ago
    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.
    - digitalzombie 13y ago
      There's a fake thinkpad which they took an ideapad and rebranded as a thinkpad. It was horrible.
  - SamReidHughes 13y ago
    The quality is better than it was before.
  - digitalzombie 13y ago
    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...
32GBiter 13y ago
Toshiba Satellite P70-ABT2G22 http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=2000099419 http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=2000099... Order the 24GB one. Order 8GBx2 memory modules from Crucial and upgrade yourself to 32GB. Cheaper than any other laptop out there.
X4 13y ago
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.)
yatakaka 13y ago
You can do this with a w-series Thinkpad. Running on 32Gb right now!
dluchian 13y ago
Most of the high-end Sager notebooks do. None of that tacky alienware crap.
- phaus 13y ago
  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.
  - dluchian 13y ago
    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.
    - phaus 13y ago
      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.
  - akama 13y ago
    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.
jzf 13y ago
Just get a really fast SSD.
- jason_slack 13y ago
  I have thought about that! I just can't find a good "bang for the buck". They are either really small in size and cheap or really expensive but larger in size. I dont see a middle road.
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12 points by jason_slack 13y ago

I have a current MBP (non-retina) with 16gb of RAM. Does anyone know of a laptop that supports 32gb (or more) of RAM?

Acer Aspire V3-772G-747a321.26TBDWakk (NX.M8SEG.007) – 1500€ Acer Aspire V3-771G-736b321.26TBDWaii, grey (NX.M1WEG.095) – 1550€ Toshiba Qosmio X70-A-11R (PSPLTE-01801DGR) – 2950€ MSI GT70SR2-x80M43237BWR Dragon Edition (001763-SKU10) – 3700€ MSI GT70SR2-x80M43237BW (001763-SKU11) – 3710€

booop 13y ago

MSI GT60 for 15.4" ASUS G750, MSI GT70 for 17"

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jason_slack 13y ago
That is not a laptop, though.
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  - jason_slack 13y ago
    You originally said a Mac Pro, that isn't a laptop, sorry for not clarifying.
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jamesjguthrie 13y ago

Some Dell Alienware laptops support 32GB, e.g. the Alienware 18 can be configured for 32GB http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n00aw843&model_id=alienware-18&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1 http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n00a...

phaus 13y ago
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 drawbacks. The first is battery life. With the dGPU enabled, it gets about 65 minutes. Any machine with such a powerful GPU is going to be about the same. It's more like 2-3 hours using the iGPU. The second downside is the extreme weight. The device itself weighs about ten pounds, and it's accompanied by the largest AC adapter I've ever seen. The adapter itself probably weights at least 3-4 lbs. Other than that, it's amazing.
- jason_slack 13y ago
  I really like Alienware. It is the weight that gets me. My 15-MBP is already heavy enough.
  - phaus 13y ago
    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.
    - X4 13y ago
      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?

svennek 13y ago

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

jason_slack 13y ago
Thanks, this looks interesting.
dolphin_man 13y ago
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.
X4 13y ago
Are Lenovo's still having the quality they were known for year ago? (I haven't looked into them for quite some time.)
- jdietrich 13y ago
  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.
  - digitalzombie 13y ago
    There's a fake thinkpad which they took an ideapad and rebranded as a thinkpad. It was horrible.
- SamReidHughes 13y ago
  The quality is better than it was before.
- digitalzombie 13y ago
  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...

32GBiter 13y ago

Toshiba Satellite P70-ABT2G22 http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=2000099419 http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=2000099... Order the 24GB one. Order 8GBx2 memory modules from Crucial and upgrade yourself to 32GB. Cheaper than any other laptop out there.

X4 13y ago

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.)

yatakaka 13y ago

You can do this with a w-series Thinkpad. Running on 32Gb right now!

dluchian 13y ago

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

phaus 13y ago
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.
- dluchian 13y ago
  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.
  - phaus 13y ago
    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.
- akama 13y ago
  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.

jzf 13y ago

Just get a really fast SSD.

jason_slack 13y ago
I have thought about that! I just can't find a good "bang for the buck". They are either really small in size and cheap or really expensive but larger in size. I dont see a middle road.

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