Maximum RAM capacity discrepancy

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I’m running Linux Mint on a 12 year old Acer Aspire 7745-7949 laptop. I’m wanting to increase its RAM and when I ran "sudo dmidecode -t 16" in Terminal it came back with a maximum capacity of 16GB. However, when I tried to confirm this with the manufacturer I was informed that this machine’s maximum capacity is 8GB.

Why should I be getting a different result? And who to believe?

This machine is currently running 4GB so it’s a difference between buying one or three RAM sticks and obviously…

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