Hello to all! I am considering to buy a laptop (this one is so far my favourite: http://www.zepto.nl/Shop/Notebook.aspx?notebookid=636). The model I am interested in can be bought with an Intel Turbo Memory module of 1GB in it. This was developed for prefetching and boot time speeding up in Vista which I do not wish to enter my house. I have searched the web but could only find people with the same question as I have, no answers. It seems that in XP this card shows up as removable media. This would be handy for Linux as well (I want to put Kubuntu and XP on it, the latter for games only), it could be used as a swap drive. But can Linux make some more "sophisticated" use of this? Would You recommend me to buy it and why (not)? It can also be equiped with 4GB of ram for 128 euro's extra (above the 2GB I would otherwise choose). Would this be worth the money? When thinking of the turbo memory module that might be used as swap, wouldn't buying this extra ram not make swapping unnecessary? Would buying 4GB AND the turbo memory module make sense? Thank You very much in advance! Yours sincerely, Rene

Hello to all! I am considering to buy a laptop (this one is so far my favourite: http://www.zepto.nl/Shop/Notebook.aspx?notebookid=636). The model I am interested in can be bought with an Intel Turbo Memory module of 1GB in it. This was developed for prefetching and boot time speeding up in Vista which I do not wish to enter my house. I have searched the web but could only find people with the same question as I have, no answers. It seems that in XP this card shows up as removable media. This would be handy for Linux as well (I want to put Kubuntu and XP on it, the latter for games only), it could be used as a swap drive. But can Linux make some more "sophisticated" use of this? Would You recommend me to buy it and why (not)? It can also be equiped with 4GB of ram for 128 euro's extra (above the 2GB I would otherwise choose). Would this be worth the money? When thinking of the turbo memory module that might be used as swap, wouldn't buying this extra ram not make swapping unnecessary? Would buying 4GB AND the turbo memory module make sense? Thank You very much in advance! Yours sincerely, Rene

"Rene" <invalid@invalid.com> schreef in bericht news:BBlTi.13868$Jc7.5269@newsfet07.ams... Sorry for this double posting, I got a message that posting had failed so I posted again but obviously it had NOT failed. Rene