Tolerable to run X40 P1.4 on 256 MB of ram?

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bonez318ti · #1 Post by **bonez318ti** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:16 am

I just bought the X40, is it tolerable to run off of 256MB of ram for hte time being? I don't do anything intensive with my computer. Its mostly used for web surfing and word processing.

Was going to wait a few months for the prices of ram to drop.. is it worth it?

aabram · #2 Post by **aabram** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:30 am

Yes, it is. You might want to turn off all unneccessary services and not load as many things at startup but in general it is quite usable for daily browsing, emailing and writing. There are lots of people out there who not only run their thinkpads with 256MB or ram but with much slower proccessors also. Althought 512 would be nice you can get away with 256 for quite some time.

Blake · #3 Post by **Blake** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:12 pm

search around, ram is cheap. you can get a single 1gb chip for around 110 shipped.

256 gets old quick, espically when you see how addicting your thinkpad will get

#4 Post by **BillMorrow** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:55 am

with 1gig parts at $100 more or less why wait any longer..??

DavidNZ · #5 Post by **DavidNZ** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:32 am

I'm waiting until they come down in price here. Current watching a Kingston 1GB chip which has been NZ$387 (plus 12.5% tax) for a month now. Sheesh! I wish we had US$100 chips.

bonez318ti · #6 Post by **bonez318ti** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:43 pm

100$ 1 GB chips?

Where? When I look at newegg and zipzoomfly, its around 180 for a 1gb chip?

Thanks

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