Lenovo ThinkPad R60 and Windows 8.1

Discussion in 'hardware' started by PEllis, Jul 30, 2017.

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  1. PEllis

    PEllis Guest

    Yes, it's 64-bit. The system does say that I have 4.00 GB of RAM installed, but 2.99 GB usable is in brackets.
     
    PEllis, Nov 11, 2017
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  2. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    It seems that the advice in the Microsoft link is correct. I've just never experienced this before.
     
    roger_m, Nov 11, 2017
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  3. PEllis

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    At least I now have more RAM to work with, so it's not all bad I guess.
     
    PEllis, Nov 11, 2017
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  4. Krusty

    Krusty Registered Member

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    All of my machines say they have less usable RAM than they have installed. For example, this machine has 16GB RAM but only 15.9 usable.
     
    Krusty, Nov 11, 2017
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  5. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    In your case the difference is negligible, but @PEllis has just over a 1GB of RAM that can't be used.
     
    roger_m, Nov 11, 2017
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  6. Bill_Bright

    Bill_Bright Registered Member

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    The cause is most likely due to integrated graphics stealing... err... umm... "sharing" a large chunk of your system RAM for graphics processing.
     
    Bill_Bright, Nov 11, 2017
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