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[Discuss] smallest board that can handle 32 GB RAM



On Thu, 08 May 2014 10:59:57 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 05/08/2014 10:16 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> I have a few monster spreadsheets (whether at least one of them should 
>> be a spreadsheet is a good question, but that's neither here nor 
>> there). With 16GB on my laptop, it pages. 
>
> Whether it should be a spreadsheet maybe is point: we use modern quantities of memory by "wasting" it. But, if you have it, why not? Do graphics one-pixel-per-spreadsheet-cell, if you want.

This, by the way, was while not having VirtualBox running.  My laptop
can take 32 GB; at some point I'll probably go there.


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