I haven't looked inside a W500 myself, but Lenovo and Crucial both say it only has two sockets, not four like the W510.
-Mike On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Aryeh Goretsky (home) <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I installed 16GB of (4x4GB PC-8500 DDR3) into a ThinkPad W510, so I would > imagine > this would work with a W500, as well, as it has four SO-DIMM sockets. It > would > probably be a good idea to find out what the maximum amount of RAM > recognized by > the chipset is, though, before you make purchase. And purchase from a > vendor with > a good return policy, just in case it doesn't work. > > Regards, > > Aryeh Goretsky > > At 10:00 AM 2/6/2011, you wrote: > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:29:42 -0500 >> >> From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Thinkpad] Max memory in a W500? >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> >> Whats the maximum amount of memory you can stuff in a W500? >> crucial says 8G which I'm sure is what Lenovos limit is, but I wonder >> if if can in fact deal with 16G. >> >> I ask because memory is fantastically cheap right now... >> >> Thanks, STeve Andre' >> > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
