Thinkpad T400 goes to 8 gigs

Published on October 14, 2008 By Frogboy In Personal Computing

The Thinkpad T400 laptop from Lenovo is brand new. It's a great laptop - best I've owned so far though it's a little glitchy right now with docking stations.

The gotcha I've had is that it only has two DIMM slots (two memory slots). It requires DDR3 memory too. But this week, Crucial has started selling 4 GB memory DIMMS (so I can now get 8 gigs). So I have the order in and hopefully this week I'll be able to upgrade.

I realize this seems incredibly geeky but I'm very excited about going up to 8 gigs. Vista 64 has performed marvelously and having a ton of free RAM for caching is likely to have a significant performance benefit.

Stay tuned.

Comments

the_Monk

on Oct 14, 2008

geek on........I hear ya man! I'm still drooling over the Acer Aspire ONE's I bought a couple of months back. (the 120GB HD version). It's perfect for my day-to-day stuff. I didn't want to have to carry a briefcase and notebook backpack. The ONE fits prefectly inside my briefcase!

Island Dog

on Oct 15, 2008

I'm jealous.

Kitkun

on Oct 15, 2008

4GB DIMMs? How expensive are they? I'm jealous too...

pjdark

on Oct 15, 2008

8 gb's? Whoah. That's rad. And i'll 3rd the jealous part.

Hack78

on Oct 15, 2008

I'm not - my machine has 8GB - it is SWEET

I'm jealous.

Suck up to the boss - see if you can get one as well???

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