T60/p 3GB limitation? Not quite...
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:58 am
Again I raise this topic because I found something interesting...
I am a T60p owner for about 2 years, and I am aware of this 3GB limitation stuff. Although it would be impossible to access the extra 1GB if I installed 4GB on it, I still bought 2 2GB modules in order to speed up the system a little bit. A few days ago I bought an x61s and would like to make it my protable machine. Almost everybody in this forum knows that all 61 systems are capable of addressing 8GB RAM, and that's what I wanna have eventually for my x61s (although I won't buy 2x4GB modules in the near future). Therefore, choosing a good x64 OS becomes very important.
Due to VISTA's big stomach on the resources, I didn't really consider VISTA x64. One good substitution is XP x64, but I found that its lack of supports on a lot of traditional thinkpad softwares, such as Access Connection, is really a minus. I don't have Windows server 2003/2008, so the only thing I can try is Windows 7 x64. Yes, it's still a beta product, but we can look forward to its coming next year. Moreover, according to the test result on Tom’s hardware, it looks quite promising that it is much less resources hungry than VISTA. So… I tried to install a copy of Windows 7 x64 on my x61s and see if it fits my need.
Wait… I don’t have an x6 dock. So what I do is installing Windows 7 x64 on my T60p, and then put the hard drive back to x61s. After finishing installing Windows 7 x64 on T60p, something magic happened as I checked system in the control panel! It shows 4GB RAM installed on my T60p! I didn’t tried installing a VISTA x64 on my T60p, so I don’t know what I will see in VISTA. However, I do see 4GB RAM in Windows 7 x64. If this means that I can access full 4GB RAM in my T60p, I’d definitely switch to Windows 7 right after it launches.
Any ideas?
I am a T60p owner for about 2 years, and I am aware of this 3GB limitation stuff. Although it would be impossible to access the extra 1GB if I installed 4GB on it, I still bought 2 2GB modules in order to speed up the system a little bit. A few days ago I bought an x61s and would like to make it my protable machine. Almost everybody in this forum knows that all 61 systems are capable of addressing 8GB RAM, and that's what I wanna have eventually for my x61s (although I won't buy 2x4GB modules in the near future). Therefore, choosing a good x64 OS becomes very important.
Due to VISTA's big stomach on the resources, I didn't really consider VISTA x64. One good substitution is XP x64, but I found that its lack of supports on a lot of traditional thinkpad softwares, such as Access Connection, is really a minus. I don't have Windows server 2003/2008, so the only thing I can try is Windows 7 x64. Yes, it's still a beta product, but we can look forward to its coming next year. Moreover, according to the test result on Tom’s hardware, it looks quite promising that it is much less resources hungry than VISTA. So… I tried to install a copy of Windows 7 x64 on my x61s and see if it fits my need.
Wait… I don’t have an x6 dock. So what I do is installing Windows 7 x64 on my T60p, and then put the hard drive back to x61s. After finishing installing Windows 7 x64 on T60p, something magic happened as I checked system in the control panel! It shows 4GB RAM installed on my T60p! I didn’t tried installing a VISTA x64 on my T60p, so I don’t know what I will see in VISTA. However, I do see 4GB RAM in Windows 7 x64. If this means that I can access full 4GB RAM in my T60p, I’d definitely switch to Windows 7 right after it launches.
Any ideas?