On Feb 25, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Randall Shimizu wrote:
Actually there is some laptop companies that have 2gb support. They all seem to use the same VIA K8T800 / VIA VT8235CE Chipset. So it's beyond me why they all are not supporting 2gb. My best guess is that there is several iterations of the VIA chipset.
I am also suprised that the industry as a whole has not gone beyond the 2gb max memory for laptops. There is a lot of power users who use their laptops for testing or demoing various products. I often hear people wish that their laptop had more than a 2gb memory capacity.
I'm willing to bet that part of it is due to available space inside the laptop and the memory density of existing SO-DIMM modules.
The biggetst SO-DIMM modules I can find are 1GB, and to my knowledge, most notebook systems have a max of two SO-DIMM slots for memory. squeezing in more slots would require more space elsewhere in the notebook, ideally right next to the first two slots. Most notebooks these days are crammed to the gills as it is.
I suppose for the "desktop replacement" category of notebooks, it would make more sense to make the machine a little physically bigger in order to offer more memory, but apparently there's not enough of a market demand for large-memory notebooks.
Gregory
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