how long before MBP support 8 gigs RAM?

[Anonymous Freak]

Then why does intel's doc say scalable up to 8GB pending sodimm variation. Maybe they do support 2 gigabit chips but it just isn't documented. I guess time will tell though.

That is interesting. Intel's technical documents usually mention the theoretical maximums, even if there is no such possibility at present. For example, the datasheet for the 5400 chipset (the likely chipset of the next Mac Pro) mentions 16 FB-DIMM socket support, with a max of 128 GB of RAM, which would require 8 GB FB-DIMMs, which don't exist yet. It specifically mentions support for 4 Gb technology chips, which, again, don't exist yet. (As far as I can determine, 2 Gb chips don't even exist yet.)

Well, two options. Either Intel's marketing department hasn't been told by engineering that they're wrong; or engineering for mobile doesn't operate the same way as engineering for servers does when posting technical documents. (I used to work in Intel's server department, so I was going by the way the server dept does things, specifying theoretical-when-technology-catches-up max, not just currently-attainable-due-to-technology-limits max.)

 

[feyn-man]

Maybe, one day, we can use more than 30G memory. And we can load the whole operating system to it. I think that will boost the speed of the system.

 

[Brianstorm91]

Why stop at 30

 

[feyn-man]

Why stop at 30

Because 30GB is enough to load daily app in leopard. I'm not talking about the next generation of macOS. You know the memory price dropped. Maybe, in 6 months or less, we can buy a 30GB memory just $100. haha

just kidding.