how much ram can my laptop take

[fat-pat]

is there a way to find out the max ram the motherboard in my laptop can take??

i know of programs that can do this in windows is there a ubuntu version

could i run the windows program in wine??

[cipherboy_loc]

Most of the laptops can take about 4GB of RAM. Do most people need this much? No. I rarely use over 1/3 my current RAM (2GB). My laptop has 2 bays for RAM, so in theory you could get 2 x 4GB RAM cards and run at 8GB, but you would need a 64-bit processor and OS. Post the output of:



lspci

and


cat /proc/cpuinfo

and


free -m


And somebody might be able to tell you how much RAM your system can take. They might need the make/model number of the system.



Cipherboy

[PRC09]

Check the manufacturer website.The amount of ram will vary from machine to machine, not only the amount but speed,type, and how much the chipset and bios will recognize...