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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&mode

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?
      - jason_slack 13y ago
        I have the latest, non-retina, MBP. So I can upgrade the RAM (running 16gb now) and I removed the superdrive and put in 2 x 750GB 7200rpm drives and striped them together.
        phaus 13y ago
        How are the screens on the non-retina Macbooks? I know it won't be an IPS, but are they still decent?
        jason_slack 13y ago
        I am perfectly fine on a non-retina. There is a difference for sure. When I go to my iPad 4 I surely appreciate the retina quality. For me it was more important the expandability than the screen.
      - phaus 13y ago
        The 15" retina allowed an upgrade to 16GB, I can only hope that the new 13" will also allow it.
        X4 13y ago
        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.
        phaus 13y ago
        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".
    - jason_slack 13y ago
      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.

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?
    - jason_slack 13y ago
      I have the latest, non-retina, MBP. So I can upgrade the RAM (running 16gb now) and I removed the superdrive and put in 2 x 750GB 7200rpm drives and striped them together.
      - phaus 13y ago
        How are the screens on the non-retina Macbooks? I know it won't be an IPS, but are they still decent?
        jason_slack 13y ago
        I am perfectly fine on a non-retina. There is a difference for sure. When I go to my iPad 4 I surely appreciate the retina quality. For me it was more important the expandability than the screen.
    - phaus 13y ago
      The 15" retina allowed an upgrade to 16GB, I can only hope that the new 13" will also allow it.
      - X4 13y ago
        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.
      - phaus 13y ago
        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".
  - jason_slack 13y ago
    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.