>>Pete,
>>
>>A bit more expensive, but you can put 16 GB of RAM are
>>- http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/precision-m4700/fs.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=mn
>>- http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/precision-m6700/fs.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=mn
>>
>>Strange , the 16GB 6700 is 2 * 8GB 1600 MHz and in Belgium we can also order 4 * 4 GB 1800 MHz
>>( I suspect 4 * 8 GB must be possible )
>>
>>I've got the predecessor of the 6700, ie the 6500 (with 16 GB RAM)
>>
>
>I just ordered an M6700 and I found it was a LOT cheaper to get the minimum memory and just a normal hard drive (non-SSD), then buy the memory / SSD separately (by a lot, I'm talking approx. $1000 less).


Interesting - thanks

I hope your M6700 will be ok. When I bought my 6500 two years ago it would freeze intermittently No BSOD, but just freeze.
The only thing left was to reboot.
No problems during several days, then one or two freezes the next day


They replaced the CPU and the memory twice, had me install a hotfix from MS.
I replaced the video driver
The whole thing went on for at least 3 months. Those cases are hard I guess
Each time they replaced the CPU, I had to completely reinstall the box

Looked like a known problem see long thread http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19336090.aspx?PageIndex=1


I wonder what would have happened in case I had replaced the memory