ray wrote:
Quote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:34:09 +0800, ADO. Inconnu wrote:
> Quote:
>> I bought my SonyVaio Notebook Computer (VGN-SZ57N, with 1GB of Ram)
>> coming with an Vista Business installed, I can't work with its poor
>> performance, so I bought / installed another new 4GB(2x2GB) Ram to
>> replace the original 1GB of Ram(Product Spec. told that it support
>> 4GB of Ram). As a result I realized both the Bios and Vista the OS
>> seeing only 3GB(actually 3070MB) Physical Memory. I google around
>> and I heard about Hardware's lacking of remapping feature and
>> Software's 32 bit OS limitation issues, but I hope I still can hear
>> someone here told me that this is an deadend for getting my current
>> computer to see and work with 4GB of Ram.
>
> Not a 'dead end' at all - only with MS. Linux 32 bit systems will
> recongize up to 64gb.
> Makes sense. Linux counts differently. Base 3.5 or something.
2**32 = 4,294,967,296
2**36 = 68,719,476,736