[SaltwaterC]

You can address up to 64 GiB of RAM with a PAE kernel. Happens that a single process can't access more than 4 GiB of RAM. But in the end, how many people actually run a process that large on a notebook?

[munin]

> how many people actually run a process that large on a notebook?

my primary computer is a notebook and I routinely run processes that large (vmware, mathematica, matlab, IDA, binnavi, my own programs, etc).

"why do you run these programs on your laptop instead of sshing to a server somewhere?"

sensitivity, responsiveness, I don't always have internet, the hardware can do it (8-16GB of RAM in a notebook is almost commonplace)

[gbrindisi]

What laptop are you using which supports 16gb of RAM? I'd love a portable computing juggernaut!

[whatusername]

Thinkpad w510. I think some of the Mac laptops might. I'm sure some other systems support it.