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    X61 Tablet...with 16GB RAM?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by krfkeith, Feb 5, 2011.

  1. krfkeith

    krfkeith Notebook Enthusiast

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    won't work.
     
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    will the memory controller just not address that much? Also, if I installed all 8GB, would all that be addressable, assuming I had a 64-bit operating system installed?
     
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    The chipset only supports 8GB.
     
    ZaZ, Feb 5, 2011
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    Desktop RAM won't work in a laptop :)
     
    jaakobi, Feb 5, 2011
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    What are you going to be doing that requires 16GB Ram? I've also heard people have maxed out their 4GB very impressive. I rarely even max 3GB on virtual machines.
     
    graycolor, Feb 5, 2011
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    Perhaps he is going to launch 8 VMs at same time or compile 16 Linux's kernels (all these stuff on low volt CPU :D). Or hmm... maybe installing Windows into ramdisk to make it suck less? :p
     
    ThinkLover, Feb 5, 2011
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    The ThinkPad X61 Tablet only supports a maximum of 4GB with a maximum of 2GB per slot.

    I hardly max out 4GB on my machine, so you should be fine with that unless like ThinkLover said, you are trying to run 8VMs....
     
    Marcham93, Feb 5, 2011
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    X61,s,t can support max of 8 gigs.
     
    lead_org, Feb 5, 2011
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    I would like a bit more than 8GB too - as Firefox is now taking up more than 2.5 GB of RAM at present! (a few tabs open... :p)

    However, most of the current notebook/tablet convertibles seem to be limited to 8GB only, unfortunately!
     
    SuperFlyBoy, Oct 23, 2011
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    Marcham93, Oct 23, 2011
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