Unibody 17" supports 8GB RAM why not the 15" ?

Pardon my ignorance....but if the 15" can only support 4 GB of RAM and 6GB unofficially, I would of thought the 17" with the same components and OS would be the same?
It's as though Apple has purposely prevented the 15" from accessing more RAM in order to keep a gap between the 17" and 15" models beyond the screen size and a few minor differences.
Any thoughts?

nwills wrote:
Pardon my ignorance....but if the 15" can only support 4 GB of RAM and 6GB unofficially, I would of thought the 17" with the same components and OS would be the same?
The OS doesn't have anything to do with it. If the OS did, a Mac Pro would be limited to 4 gb RAM.
The hardware matters. That's why a Mac Pro supports a phenomenal amount of RAM. Nowhere has it been stated that the new 17" and the new 15" are the same internally, and I'd bet that they aren't.

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