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I am thinking about the soon to be released X61 and the possibility of Turbo Memory.

As far as I can understand so far, Turbo Memory gives you an extra gig of disk cache. Does anyone know if this is transparent to
the OS (i.e. will it work in Linux out of the box)? Also, does it make sense to get this instead of another gig of RAM? I guess 2Gigs of ram is the the first step, and then maybe Turbo Memory makes sense, since the 2Gig dimms are still very expensive, and putting 3 gigs will cost something like $200 more than 2 Gigs (and you might lose some performance with mismatched dimms).

I believe the OS has to be aware of it -- and that's really the best way to leverage it. Vista has some smarts built into it to figure out what files to cache, and it then works with the "turbo memory" to implement that caching.

So I think you may need to wait for someone to implement a similar scheme for Linux ...

If linux can detect the device, then you can use it. Just got to set it up correctly.