What is the max Ram for DV5T-1000 (Model: KQ574AAR)

[big-green-tea]

I just bought a DV5T-1000 HP Pavilion laptop that came with 4GB of ram:

Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 2.0 GHz CPU
4 GB DDR2 SDRAM
250 GB 5400rpm hard drive
Integrated graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD

I went to Crucial.com and found this information:

8GB Kit (4GBx2)  

Part #: CT896670 • DDR2 PC2-6400 • CL=6 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR2-800 • 1.8V • 512Meg x 64 •   •  more details

 

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Is this correct?

and if so, $459.99 is quite a lot, even for Crucial!

[Huffer]

4 gig sticks are nearly $400 each at Kingston. Unless you are doing Adobe Photoshop at a professional level or some equivalent media editing, I cannot imagine a use for the computer that 4 gigs will not handle extremely well. The price of 8 gigs is going to come down eventually and I am just going to wait, personally.

[phat_tshens]

Actually, at Newegg a pair of 4GB matched sticks from a variety of manufacturers sells for about $350 as of 8/13 . While that's still a lot considering that a 2x2GB matched kit is about $60, Huffer's remark of '$400 each' seems to be out of this world, since he is quoting a price directly off the manufacturer's web site. Now, unless you're a millionaire, or have a rich uncle you will not by directly from the manufacturer, right?Also, his comment of 'I cannot imagine a use for the computer that 4 gigs will not handle extremely well' causes me to raise an eyebrow: has he heard of virtualization yet? As in VMware (or even Microsoft Virtual PC)?  As in, you can run multiple instances of operating systems side by side on the same box, completely isolated from each-other?My dv5T with a T9600 2.8Ghz CPU is perfectly adequate to handle this sort of task. It's only a question of how much memory is available to each virtual machine.