Hello, I am sure there are a lot of people on the list who remember using computers with speeds measured in single digit megahertz and kilobytes of RAM. The T500, W500 and W700 go up to 8GB of RAM, I think. Time marches on, I guess.
Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 08:52 PM 3/13/2009, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
Operating system and background programs use about 1.2GB of RAM when cold booted That's a SIN. There was a time when you could run Win98 on 64MB very nicely. Now it takes 1.2 gigs just to boot up. Gates has to be kidding. And you thought Madoff was a scammer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 64 bit Vista > Hello, > > I am running Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition x64 on a T61p (6459-CTO) > without any problems. System was purchased with 1GB of RAM and 80GB SATA HDD > running Vista Home Basic, which I removed and replaced with 4GB of > RAM, a 320GB > SATA HDD and installed a retail version of Vista Ultimate. Currently have a > 500GB SATA HDD installed in it. > > Operating system and background programs use about 1.2GB of RAM when cold > booted, and tends to hover around 1.3-1.4GB during daily usage. > > I use a T60 (no p) at work, and there is not too much difference between the > two, usability-wise. > > Regards, > > Aryeh Goretsky > > > At 10:00 AM 3/13/2009, you wrote: > >Message: 2 > >Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:04:30 -0700 > >From: "Paul Khoury" <[email protected]> > >Subject: [Thinkpad] 64 bit Vista > >To: <[email protected]> > >Message-ID: <1fd9a172ed6641dc96fc52d1720ba...@wisconsin> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > >Anyone have any comments on 64 bit Vista? I'm thinking I'd like to run it > >on my new T61p, > >only to reclaim the extra gig of memory (I purchased the machine solely for > >graphic > >editing). I actually use Vista Ultimate (got a free license from a Windows > >Mobile UG I've belonged > >to for over 9 years), and once you tweak it, it's fairly decent, although > >updates take forever and drivers > >are somewhat of a pain. > > > >The X60 Tablet of course remains at XP Pro. I wish I could make this > >faster, because when I tried Photoshop > >CS4 on the tablet, realized I needed a new machine. Any other tidbits about > >the T61p I should > >know about, such as the nvidia graphic performance, or is it fairly > >comparable to the T60p it's replacing? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
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