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[Michael Moy]

> I'm guessing you need the extra memory installed on
> your system to take advantage of this. I just looked
> at a number of HP systems shipping with Athlon 64 and
> X2, and none of them came with the option to upgrade
> past 2GB of memory. Doh! Looks like the 64-bit usage
> model is broken!

As has been mentioned many times before on this board,
the issue is address space. Memory helps in performance
but you can't get to square one without the address
space. I think that I've seen one Pentium 4 notebook
that does have more than 2 GB of memory available in my
search for high-end notebooks. So it can be done but it
doesn't seem popular right now.

A cheaper solution would be to buy a USB device that
connects to a RamDisk (I saw a PCI-card that would take
all kinds of different cheap memory to construct a
RamDisk) and setup your paging file to use this device.