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souixan said:
If you'd asked me a year ago I'd have probably said 2 GB unified memory would be best for next generation but already in 2008 you can buy 4GB for 80$ or so if you can shop around you can get it lower.

By 2011-2012 when I estimate we'll be kicking into next gen 4 GB will be significantly cheaper as PC's seem to get stronger every few months, prices reduce better things come out etc. I'd say in the next 3-4 years 4GB of ram will be cheap as I recall 2GB being 80-90$ not long ago which now I can buy 2 GB for... 20$ I'd say 2-6 GB is within reason pending how price drops go and the price of the system.

Edit: One of the best things they could do is not so much increase the memory as lower the latency and improve how it communicates with the CPU. Combined GPU/CPUs are in the future so that could be a cost cutting measure. I've always been a fan of unified memory though, it seems a better system as you can scale it as you need it, non unified if you're not using it for graphics, it just doesn't get used.

 

Yep. Am pretty sure I've seen some one with a laptop that has 8GB. A LAPTOP!! Must have been custom made or something, I understand apple does that. And it looked like an apple laptop to me.



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