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Comment by mschuster91 | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone know of a consumer-grade laptop with ECC RAM?

I don't think there are any.

For such laptops to exist, there should exist a memory controller that supports ECC RAM. Intel's chips have memory controller built-in, since Nehalem (2008) [1] and Intel has no mobile CPUs with ECC support. Apart from the brand-new mobile Xeon's, the first of which are released in September and have 45W TDP; [2][3] I think the laptops with them are not out yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_%28microarchitecture%2...

[2] http://ark.intel.com/products/family/88210/Intel-Xeon-Proces...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microproces...

Skylake in Xeon version. So far there is Dell XPS 15 and something from Lenovo.

It's Dell Precision 15 with the Xeon option, but I doubt it can use ECC RAM until someone provides the reliable link.

http://www.dell.com/au/business/p/precision-m7510-workstatio...

"Memory

    8GB (1x8G) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory Non ECC
    16GB (1x16G) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory Non ECC
    16GB (2x8GB) 2133MHz DDR4 ECC Memory ECC
    16GB (2x8G) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory Non ECC
    32GB (4x8GB) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory ECC
    32GB (4x8GB) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory Non ECC
    32GB (2x16GB) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory Non ECC
    64GB (4x16G) 2133MHz DDR4 Memory Non ECC"

Thanks. Though, the downside: both companies got caught red-handed with filling their computers pre-loaded with spyware, malware and other bullshit :'(

If you care enough to put ECC in your machine you probably should start with a clean install as well.

Doesn't help a single bit (pun intended) against the bullshit in the BIOS data tables which installs the malware no matter what :(

The Lenovo discussed here purports to have ECC capability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039306

I don't know if you'd call that "consumer grade" or not, though.

Check http://www.intelligentmemory.com/ECC-DRAM/; maybe you can fit these on cots laptops. Heard it mentioned in relation to Purism Librem laptops (https://puri.sm/librem-15/); better ask them if it's still an option.

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