On: Kingston displays 384GB of DDR4 in top-secret Intel server at CES

[dangrossman]

> Which is to say, I'd be happy if it became possible in the near future to get laptops with 48GB of of DD3

The reason laptops still come with just 4GB of RAM has little to do with the cost of RAM. Each gig you add reduces battery life significantly.

[samstave → dangrossman]

My last several laptops (System76) came with 16GB. Though I have never looked at the impact to battery...

I run multiple VMs on my machine continuously (a win7 VM and a couple other linux VMs). The machine has dual SSDs and it's super freaking fast.

[rbanffy → dangrossman]

There are also diminishing returns for the average user. My mother would notice an SSD, but probably not another 4 gigabytes of RAM. Her computer almost never hits the swap partition.