Kingston Maximizes Notebook Memory

Portable PCs get a big memory boost with 256MB modules.

Your typical off-the-shelf notebook PC comes with 64MB of memory, and that probably suits most of your needs. You can add memory, but the maximum amount that most notebooks (especially the smaller ones) can handle is in the 192MB to 256MB range.

So if you're running truly memory-hungry applications (databases, software development, or video editing, for example) and need a major memory boost, you've run into a memory wall.

But Kingston Technologies, one of the leading suppliers of add-on memory, wants to knock that wall down.

This week, Kingston announced that it's the first to offer 256MB PC100 SODIMMs for notebooks. Although the exact configuration will vary by manufacturer, Kingston's new modules will allow most users of contemporary notebooks to boost their memory to 512MB. The expected street price is $670.

According to Craig Tilmont, Kingston's portable strategies manager, shoehorning more memory into the modules was done through a "combination of engineering expertise and ingenuity."

The individual memory chips used in a module haven't become smaller, but Kingston has figured out a way to pack them closer together, according to Tilmont.

Kingston's 256MB PC100 SODIMMs are shipping now, and are available for most name-brand notebooks including Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Toshiba.

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