Up to 16 GB of RAM on Dell Precision Workstation Laptops

June 11, 2008

Posted By:  workpenguin

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Status: Implemented

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I use my Dell laptop as a VMWare-based virtual lab workstation with 32 bits Linux host for (supporting up to 32GB of RAM available to applications), and I do not plan to buy a new laptop until it supports up to 16GB of RAM.

This would allow running all of my virtual LABs and working on my virtual architecture for testing and planning purposes before further hardware testing and deployment. And I need a laptop as I'm always moving. I am often working with 5-9 virtual guests, and more, some of them requiring more than 1GB RAM to work.

I know that I am not the only one in this situation. I wish this would be available until 1 year, when my Dell support will expire.

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Please see mano_g's comment

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  • Oct 16, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: mano_g

    @workpenguin: Glad to hear the M6400 will be your next workstation. I love hearing that! :) Mano_G
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  • Oct 15, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: workpenguin

    You did it ! THANKS ! This is my next workstation.
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  • Sep 5, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jmxz

    mano_g ... Sr. Product Marketing Manager ... Dell Precision Product Marketing" Wow. Great job. Those are beautiful systems, both in appearance and specs http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/12/dell-lets-slip-new-sexy-precision-m4400-and-m2400-mobile-workst/
    In the M6400 17-inch flagship "concept" Dell is offering up to 16GB of RAM, 1TB RAID storage, 100% Adobe RGB color gamut in an LED-backlit display
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  • Sep 5, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jackie_c

    Changed status to **IMPLEMENTED**.
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  • Sep 5, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jmxz

    NICE! Thanks for letting us know, mano_g! Admins - seems this Idea can be marked as Implemeted?
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  • Sep 5, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: mano_g

    The new Dell Precision M6400 is able to support up to 16GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory. mano_g Sr. Product Marketing Manager Dell Precision Product Marketing
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  • Jun 11, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jmxz

    I'm in a similar situation. I do sales demos of our server based application suite which involve running one VM for the database server, one VM for the application servers (unfortunately using different OS's so I can't run them on one VM), one VM representing a windows client (don't have windows on my desktop), and one VM showing a linux client (well, I use my laptop's primary OS for this; but the other salesguys use a VM for this one). Right now these 4 VMs all fit uncomfortably on a laptop with 2GB; and it only works because I have a drastically reduced subset of data in the database. If I had a laptop with 16GB ram, I could run with a copy of one of our smaller full production databases.