Wait til april. I've been waiting for a while, it looks like lenovo is going to start shipping laptops with 16gb sticks around april (couple of non official con

Wait til april. I've been waiting for a while, it looks like lenovo is going to start shipping laptops with 16gb sticks around april (couple of non official confirmations) (this will also cause the price of the ram to drop down from its current 300usd price point I hope) The main issue with most ultrabooks is they only get a single sodimm slot. Or in other words have a hard limit of 8gb. These 16gb sticks[1] have been round a while but an issue with the cpu's prevented them from registering, the broadwell series has sorted that. As for recommendations, I was tossing up between x1c 3rd gen and a macbook / second air / 16gb mbp. I'm now holding out for april and likely going to go with a thinkpad X250 - its a bit fatter but its 12.5" and has upgradable insides (ram/hd.) This is mostly down to the fact that I prefer a solid keyboard over anything else and the x1c just doesn't have the travel to make it worth ditching apple. (I'd take another MBA over going with x1c) Options: - x1c - nice but too thin for key travel like a fatter thinkpad, qhd will kill battery life, at least it has track point - x250 - fatter but small, good kb with decent travel, upgradeable / replaceable insides + battery, shitty screen - mba - can't really complain, had my mba since late '11 no issues what so ever. - mb - nice everything, only a single port though, depending on usage you might not be able to deal - mbp - far better spec's than all and still cheaper / thinner than lenovos (aus taxes destroy lenovo v mac..) All of the above will run linux but have some issues until problems get sorted, nothing a deal breaker. For me, the x250 is in first place but I don't mind a fattop and the keyboard is far too important to me. (I don't mind crappy screens while coding so much) Trackpoint vs mac trackpad is a 50-50 for me also but I wouldn't want anything less than either of those. [1] http://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/ http://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/