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Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop

(arstechnica.com)
154 points walterbell | 1 comments | 15 Dec 15 07:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jkot ◴[15 Dec 15 11:41 UTC] No.10737214[source]▶
> Running a dozen VMs or more, as many Qubes users do, can be resource-intensive, so plenty of RAM and a fast processor are essential.

I hoped it would support 32GB RAM in 13" laptop, but maximum is 16GB RAM. Only option seems to be Portege R30 Skylake version (not yet announced), which has two DDR slots.

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mtgx ◴[15 Dec 15 13:05 UTC] No.10737520[source]▶
I think that's mostly Intel's fault. They're keeping mainstream notebook chips limited to 16GB of RAM so they can upsell you the (more expensive) "Xeon for notebooks" chips.
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1. yuhong ◴[15 Dec 15 19:45 UTC] No.10739965[source]▶
They aren't doing this. The main thing to blame is Intel not officially supporting anything greater than 4Gbit with DDR3 (they want to push DDR4 instead). In reality 8Gbit DDR3 does work with Broadwell and Skylake, and Purism is already doing it.