Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9: 16:10, 4k screen, 32GB RAM

Re:Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9: 16:10, 4k screen, 32GB RAM by eqvinox on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:32PM (#25753136)

> Before with the 10th gen Intel CPUs and 16GB RAM max, it just wasn't a future-proof enough machine

The i7-8550U I'm posting this from has 32GB RAM?

(It's still obsolete due to shitty GPU, but I'm confused where you're pulling a 16GB limit from)

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Re:Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9: 16:10, 4k screen, 32GB RAM by fomine3 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:36PM (#25756833)

16GB RAM limit on a few years old portable machine is came from LPDDR3's max capacity. Intel CPU only supports LPDDR3 as low power memory until Ice Lake supports LPDDR4. Apple previously adopted LPDDR3 for MBP15 but they finally changed to DDR4 to increase capacity with sacrifying battery life a bit.

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Re:Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9: 16:10, 4k screen, 32GB RAM by skrtskrt on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:34PM (#25753173)

Ah you might be right I'm probably thinking of the current gen Nano I was looking at. Either way, the shitty GPU you mentioned was definitely a reason to wait as well.

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Re:Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9: 16:10, 4k screen, 32GB RAM by eqvinox on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:38PM (#25753239)

Indeed I don't see a Nano with more than 16GB RAM, and it's not upgradeable. Meh.

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