Asus Laptops only support 4GB with Core i7?

But why would release a new laptop with Core i7 and an motherboard only supporting 4gb?

In retrospect, really all I have seen with most laptops on the market these days is the fact that they are maxed out at 4GB. I wish I knew why that was, but it would appear that it is the industry standard. You'd probably have to move up to a gaming class laptop for more memory. I tried looking up the laptop, but all I can find are specs on it in German.

It's probably simply because the motherboard developers are lazy. To get more than 4GB, you'll have to buy sticks that have 4GB+ capacities, which are really expensive and hard(ish) to find. Not many people need that much memory, anyway.

Its the specific laptop from Asus. I looked into this.
The P55M chipset supports even 16gb.

the HP Envy 15 can go up to 16gb on that same chipset. HOWEVER, it has 4 DIMMs whereas the Asus has 2. So, you MIGHT be able to buy 4gb+ sticks and put them in the Asus. I don't see why that wouldn't work given the chipset but Asus may have done something to the mobo to prevent that.

As previous poster said, 4gb+ DDR3 sticks for laptop are VERY expensive. I don't know what you need the laptop for, but 4gb may be enough.

Photoshop really won't eat 4GB of memory. Only heavy HD video editing and your own sophisticated programming can do that. (for now, and it will probably stay that way for several years).

You shouldn't disconsider the Asus simply because you can't get more RAM in it that you'll probably never use.

VM's too. I always seem to forget about them because I never use them. I just don't find them useful. I'm not a software guy, though. All of my engineering applications run on both Windows and Linux, so I can simply take my pick at bootup.