Will the new MBP be able to handle 8GB of ram?

[cstromme]

The Santa Rosa chipset supports it, but now that they've gone over to NVidia what do they support? The specs page says 4GB, but I just find it weird that that's the case.

 

[NT1440]

Well according to an email thats been floating around here, it can support 8 GB. Spending $1000 on that much ram (2x4GB chips) right now will not make much of a difference other than you mayb having to file for bankruptcy.

 

[Jatku]

Nvidia says yes, according to 9to5mac.

http://www.9to5mac.com/8GB-MacBook-NVIDIA

 

[ageha]

Well according to an email thats been floating around here, it can support 8 GB. Spending $1000 on that much ram (2x4GB chips) right now will not make much of a difference other than you mayb having to file for bankruptcy.

Where do you buy your RAM?
Depending on what you do it can make sense. I haven't work on machines with less that 8GB for more than 5 years.

 

[r.j.s]

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Where do you buy your RAM?
Depending on what you do it can make sense. I haven't work on machines with less that 8GB for more than 5 years.

But, if you NEED 8GB of RAM, you should be using a desktop.

 

[NT1440]

Where do you buy your RAM?
Depending on what you do it can make sense. I haven't work on machines with less that 8GB for more than 5 years.

Are you talking DDR3 ram for laptops?

I admit I havent looked too much into it but from the links on this site from others it seems that a 4GB DDR3 module of notebook memory runs close to $500.

PLEASE correct me if im wrong, PLEASE!

 

[ageha]

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But, if you NEED 8GB of RAM, you should be using a desktop.

Right, 8 cores are even better.