On 12 Mar 2011, Daniel James stated:
If you have a 64-bit CPU and a 64-bit OS you can support more RAM ...
IIRC current x86-64 chips only support a 2^48 byte physical address
space, but that's 256TB which is thousands of times more than any
current motherboard supports.

Not so. My current server has a motherboard which, fully populated,
supports 384Gb -- and it's two years old. (It has 'only' 24Gb in it.
I feel so short of memory sometimes.)

There are server-class boxes out there with terabytes of RAM now --
although they are hardly consumer-grade.

Most 24" monitors are now 1920x1080 (16:9 ratio) but these two are both
1920:1200 (16:10) which will give a little more vertical height, which
is useful for text editing. Both have USB hubs built in, the Dell also
has an SD card reader while the Nec has (rather tinny) speakers.

I've never entirely understood what USB hubs are supposed to bring to a
monitor? The ability to build in tinny speakers and SD card readers?
(The latter in particular seems deeply arbitrary.)

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