Any idea why there is a 4GB RAM limit on this machine?

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A friend has a Toshiba P305-S8825 I am working on. It's a 64 bit chip but the machine shipped with 32-bit Vista on it. He's now on 64-bit Win7, and was looking to upgrade the RAM. The product description says a maximum of 4GB. Any idea why it would have that limit? I've already looked at this post (http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1933630/upgrade-ram-4gb-limit-64x-sony-vaio-vgn-ar630e-laptop.html?xtor=EREC-8889) on a similar topic.

Here's the spec sheet for the notebook...
http://support.toshiba.com/support/staticContentDetail?contentId=2009443&isFromTOCLink=false

Thanks!
 
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Not really. At the time that was manufactured, 2GB SODIMs were probably the norm. That is DDR2, two generations ago. DDR3 was around for a long time. You are using today's expectations on hardware from yesterday.
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Not really. At the time that was manufactured, 2GB SODIMs were probably the norm. That is DDR2, two generations ago. DDR3 was around for a long time. You are using today's expectations on hardware from yesterday.
 
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I agree with Kanewolf, I believe the limitation "could" be simply because it was the norm back then or because the laptop only shipped with a 32 bit OS; I have an old netbook that was shipping with Win7 starter edition and thus saying it was limited to 2GB of RAM, but I was able to switch OS and replace the RAM with a 4GB medule. That limit could therefore be completely irrelevant, but, as other said, there could be physical limitations as well, hard to know without trying it out :(
 
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