I think it's a combination of both demand and form factor. My impression is that the industry views laptops as more of a consumer item. Thus don't feel compelled to devote more resources to re-engineer their products. But I do think there would be a demand for laptops that have a bigger memory capacity. On the otherhand if Microsoft were to lead a initiative 'Dutch' I think it would happen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Ruiz-Ade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [sdw2003] Athlon 64 DTR (Laptop processor)1gbmemorylimitations............??? Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:49:52 -0800 > > 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 > > -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu << PGP.sig >> > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
