There's no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet

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While us mere Earth-dwellers are stuck in the middle of the RAMpocalypse, those bourgeoise folks up on the International Space Station have no such worries. The current crew are reviewing plans to replace network servers on the gigantic floating tin can—and discussing when they can activate their new laptops.

And what magnificent machines they appear to be (via The Verge). The crew's new computers are custom HP ZBook G9 Fury models, and they've got specs sheets that would make many modern gaming rigs weep.

With Intel Core Ultra 9 processors and Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell mobile GPUs nestled inside, the new HP machines [PDF] certainly have processing and graphics needs covered—along with a serious dose of AI crunching power. Each also comes with 128 GB worth of DDR5 ECC SO...

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