Alex Samad wrote: > 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 ............... > >> > My first one, a commedore vic-20, I think I was 8 years old and it was my first real love... 1MHz CPU I think is was a 6502 5K RAM
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