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It is faster to have DUAL channel (2x512MB RAM) againt SINGLE (1x1GB RAM) channel ?, if yes how much ?, thanks

Technically, dual channel but I woulndt worry about it. The performance you will gain with dual channel will be so nominal that its not worth the loss of expandibility. If you want a workstation notebook, the X60 is not the right computer for you.

mfratt wrote:Technically, dual channel but I woulndt worry about it. The performance you will gain with dual channel will be so nominal that its not worth the loss of expandibility. If you want a workstation notebook, the X60 is not the right computer for you.

I see you have 1.5GB RAM, mine came with 512MB and I have replaced the 512MB module for a single 1GB module, because in that way the hibernation process is much faster, why you instaled 1.5MB RAM ?, thanks

Mine came with 1x1GB, but at the time they had an offer for a free extra 512MB, so I took that. I would like to upgrade to 2x1GB sometime in the future.

The newer Intel chipsets are capable of running dual channel with different equipped memory banks too.

Dual channel should be faster than single channel, but I personally cannot tell the difference between them. In fact, I use many different computers, at work, at school and at home: 2 laptops, and 4 desktops, they all have wildly different hardware set up. The X60 I just received has Core Duo, so does 1 of my desktop at work, another desktop in my office has P4 2.8 Ghz, my old laptop has P4 2.4 Ghz, my desktop at home has Athlon64 3200+. They all have between 1 gb to 2 gb of ram, but, as far as I can tell, there is very little diference between any two machines.
If you run some benchmark software on them, you probably will see some performing faster than the others, but human perception is not as sharp.