On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: > > Hi > > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > > Thanks in advance > > Dean > > You've got other constraints to worry about other than theoretical 64 > bit CPU/OS maximums. Fist is power, second is space. You'll be hard > pressed to find a laptop/notebook/whatever that will accept more than > 8GB worth of SODIMMs any time soon, from any vendor. In another couple > of years you may see laptops supporting up to 16GB as RAM manufacturers > move to smaller transistor geometries.
God can you remember when 16M used to be a lot ...............
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