16GB SO-DIMMs work in X250

[Technobob]

Just wanted to mention that I have been running one of these 16Gb SO-DIMM's for about three weeks now and it works great.  I have had zero issues.

Other than wishing the initial expense was a tad lower, I would highly recommend if you need to go beyond 8Gb on an X250.

Cheers!

[thinkthet]

---

ColonelONeill wrote:
X260 = Full-size ultraportable with 2 slots.
X260s = Ultrabook wannabe with soldered RAM.

Everyone's happy, except for operations.

---

I second this motion.

[thinkthet]

---

Technobob wrote:

Just wanted to mention that I have been running one of these 16Gb SO-DIMM's for about three weeks now and it works great.  I have had zero issues.

Other than wishing the initial expense was a tad lower, I would highly recommend if you need to go beyond 8Gb on an X250.

Cheers!

---

Any noticeable improvements in performance? I am seriously considering buying one soon.

[Technobob]

Not really from day to day office use perspective.  However, I run a hypervisor from time to time and the 16gb really does help performance on the vm's.    That is the only reason I bumped to 16gb.

If you are an e-mail, office productivity suite, web surfer, 16Gb probably would not be worth the extra expense.  However, if you have memory hungry apps (heavy data analysis, engineering apps, graphics apps, host vm's, etc), the 16Gb is worth every penny IMHO.

[thinkthet]

---

Technobob wrote:

Not really from day to day office use perspective.  However, I run a hypervisor from time to time and the 16gb really does help performance on the vm's.    That is the only reason I bumped to 16gb.

If you are an e-mail, office productivity suite, web surfer, 16Gb probably would not be worth the extra expense.  However, if you have memory hungry apps (heavy data analysis, engineering apps, graphics apps, host vm's, etc), the 16Gb is worth every penny IMHO.

---

Thanks for the response. I use my X250 for financial modeling on Excel and Argus, checking emails on Outlook, and web-surfing almost exclusively. Even when working on multiple VBA-based financial models and a crap ton of tabs on Mozilla, RAM usage appears to be around 3.9GB which is half of my X250's capacity. I originally thought having more "headroom" in terms of RAM would make my notebook faster. I guess I will wait until the price point on 16GB sodimms become more reasonable.

[ThinkPadXpert]

Thanks for all your comments and we will be taking this feedback into consideration on our next 12" design.  We have now released a qualified 16GB DIMM for the X250.

 http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?...

[n7leadfarmer]

is there any way someone could tell me if this particular module will work in the x250? i am a complete novice when it comes to laptop hardware (most computer hardware, for that matter)

http://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B008EMA1BO/ref=psdc_172500_r0_B008EMA1BO?_encoding=UTF8&showVi...

I doubt it, otherwise I feel like everyone would be talking about it, but that price is so good I had to ask.

 thx all

edit: nvm.. it looks like this discussion is on so-dimm modules and the one i linked is an rdimm. sucks. if I had known a single 16gb stick was so hard to find I would have sprung for one on my model

[Dammie_ru]

It's size is not for notebbok.

[Dammie_ru]

This one works: IMM2G64D3LSOD8AG-B15E

Ordered here:  ok2.de

[n7leadfarmer]

so my x250 is currently smoking (figuratively, not literally) and all I'm doing is running bluestacks. I think ineed more ram now but my plan was to wait for the 16gb sticks to come down. when I bought this notebook I didn't realize how hard a 16gb single stick was to come by so I went with 4gb to keep costs down. should I go ahead and upgrade to 8? I just can't do 365 for ram right now.