Dell 4Gb to 16Gb DDR 3 upgrade --- £500

[Carol Haynes]

My eyes just popped.

Alienware customisation on Dell's website offers an upgrade from 4Gb of DDR3 memory to 4x4Gb at a the very reasonable cost of £500.

Generously they also offer to upgrade from one model of Core i7 to another for a mere £900.

Are these people on drugs ???

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/alienware-m18x/pd

[Deozaan]

But if you're a gamer then you've got to have it!

[Renegade]

But if you're a gamer then you've got to have it!

And if you're part of the 1%, you can afford it~!

[Josh]

Does the EU have a 99% group too?

[Renegade]

Does the EU have a 99% group too?

Yes. Most seem to be in London though.

And it seems like Greece has a 100% group.

(Sorry - Couldn't resist... again. )

[Josh]

<--- The 1% of the 99% of the 100%

[Stoic Joker]

My eyes just popped.

Alienware customisation on Dell's website offers an upgrade from 4Gb of DDR3 memory to 4x4Gb at a the very reasonable cost of £500.

Generously they also offer to upgrade from one model of Core i7 to another for a mere £900.

Are these people on drugs ???

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/alienware-m18x/pd

IIRC The memory prices on Dells skyrocket after 8GB because they have to use ECC memory with a specialized buffer for those memory configurations (so the price (is about ~50% off) really isn't that bad).

[Carol Haynes]

Why do they have to use ECC memory? I have 16Gb in my system which cost under £100 for the lot!

[Stoic Joker]

Why do they have to use ECC memory? I have 16Gb in my system which cost under £100 for the lot!

*Shrug* ... Something to do with (stability under load) coordinating the multiple processor cores, with the multiple memory channels... I'm not an architecture guy, I just ran across the info shortly after recovering from the same sticker shock a while back.

[Carol Haynes]

Couldn't find registered or unbuffered ECC DDR3-1600 SODIMS on a quick internet search but Crucial do 4 x 4Gb DDR3-1600 non-ECC (the same capacity and spec as Dell as far as I can tell) for under £100 - I can't see why it would need to be ECC - it isn't exceptionally fast memory.

[Stoic Joker]

Yeah, the ECC part was because I was looking up a server at the time - There's a downside to doing things in a hurry...Ya know?

For Dell/Alienware (the name I suspect you're paying for...) US the 16GB config is +$400, and the 32GB config is +$2,000 ...Now that's freaking crazy!

[Ath]

If I'd need 32 GB I wouldn't be putting that in a laptop, but in a proper desktop with a huge processor, not available in a laptop, for pulling all those Virtual Machines through the clay.

[Stoic Joker]

If I'd need 32 GB I wouldn't be putting that in a laptop, but in a proper desktop with a huge processor, not available in a laptop, for pulling all those Virtual Machines through the clay.

Amen to that!