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by mort96 3106 days ago
I'm looking at this Intel CPU: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...

That claims to support up to 32GB memory, and it claims to support, among other things, LPDDR3-1866. Are you saying that if you want to use LPDDR3-1866 with that CPU, you're limited to only 16GB? I can't find anything about that through some quick googling, but if it's true, I retract my snarky comment.

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Note "(dependent on memory type)". It can do LPDDR3, and it can do 32GB, but not both at once. You'll note that any laptops which do 32GB will list DDR4 RAM.
How about this beefier mobile CPU, which supports up to 64GB RAM? Maybe they'd have needed to make some of their pro laptops a bit less thin, but they are _Pro_ laptops after all. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...

Also, I wish Intel would just list the maximum supported memory configuration for each memory type, instead of just having a worthless "(depending on memory type)".