Buying a new laptop

[foxyloxley]

Hi m3rk3r,

Can you tell me why it would be 6GB? I am afraid I mostly deal with desktops, and obviously those are all I build. Since windows 7 came out, I haven't built anything with less than 8GB dual channel.

DDR3 I would guess

DDR2 preferred twin matched sticks
as it worked on both +ve and -ve cycles hence the 2 pipes mentioned in specs

DDR3 = 3 pipes ?
and likewise would therefore prefer 3 matched stickes to utilise

and as for

36 bit address bus back in the mid-1990's

wasn't going to be in many private machines though