nevermind….. i skipped a part of what you wrote, so thanx anyway.

hey, thanks for the tips, but here’s a stupid question. I was wondering if redy boost can boost up my RAM. I need about 15 RAM to play this game and im wondering if the redy boost can make that happen. If i don’t have to pay and put a chip in id be relly happy

It’s just my opinion of course, but given the specs of your machine, I think the benefit of adding any more capacity to ReadyBoost would be marginal at best. In other words, if the benefit is a boost of 2% to 4% (just guessing), what’s that worth in terms of dollars? Is it worth $50 for a larger memory card? $100? I don’t know, of course and everyone would answer that question differently. I just wouldn’t expect much more of a ‘boost’ so I probably wouldn’t spend the money. Now, if I borrowed a higher capacity card from someone and saw a 15% or more boost, that would change the equation. Make sense? Hope that helps a little…

Thanks Kevin. Do you mean I wouldn’t benefit much from the 2:5:1 ratio as opposed to a 1:1, or a larger capacity card? It would seem that a 3GB card would be something I would get some benefit from?

Unfortunately, there’s only one way to tell for sure and that’s to try a higher capacity SD card. Perhaps you can borrow one from someone?
Microsoft recommends “a 1:1 ratio of flash to system memory at the low end and as high as 2.5:1 flash to system memory. Higher than that and you won’t see much benefit.” With the specs that you quoted, I’m not sure you’d see much more benefit…

I have a new Sony Vaio SZ650 (dualcore 2.2). I upgraded to 3GB Ram, have the 160GB hybrid drive and have Readyboost set on a SanDisk Extreme III 1 GB Secure Digital (SD) Card 133 X Write Speed – 20 MBps Transfer Speed -SKU: SDSDX3-1024-901. The tech at Sony told me that I didn’t need more than the 1 GB of flash (he also told me I didn’t need more than the 3GB of RAM). I am running Vista Pro. It seems to be running fine, but would a larger compact flash drive do anything for me? Thanks

I agree linux has its place, its fast, flexible and secure. But the idea of a UMPC is to allow a user to do everything that they can on their main machine and take it with them.

With Windows being the main OS, it makes more sense for them to be windows, and then UMPCs can have real world tools like Office, OneNote and Visual Studio.

Linux on mobile devices is perfect for the N800s and Zaurus’ but you can’t beat being able to take the most widely accepted OS with you whereever you go.

And thats why having vista in your pocket is not for chumps.

or you could just use an OS that dosnt suck up all your resources.
Vista has this nifty little feature to speed up your PC cause Vista slows down your PC.
(forcing you to upgrade and buy new PCs preinstalled with vista)
No wonder microsoft is making a fortune.
Im using a windows XP/Backtrack Linux dual boot system on 512MB ram and it runs like lightning.
(custom shell so I dont have to load windows explorer elements)
an SD card for my pagefile.sys and Firefox/Opera for websurfing, A43 file explorer (800KB windows explorer replacement)
And my system runs like lightning (still strong after 2 years)
Vista is for Chumps
Now if someone knows where I could get readyboost for XP I would be interested in taking a look. (although I dont need it)
Anyway if you want a really fast PC, try installing Linux.

Since the CF slot is looked at as a hd, couldn’t you just put the page file on that drive and not on the HDD? Putting the swap file on the CF has to be faster than having it read and write to the HDD. Only drawback is that you cannot take out the card when windows is running. Any thoughts.
Kenal0

Friday, 11 March 2005
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I have had vista running for about 3 months now, ever since RC1. Readyboost works amazing for me. I run a lot of virtual machines. And the harddrive on laptops are usually 5400rpm. My laptop is about 5months old. dell inspiron 6000. 2G of ram. running the virtual machines without ready boost halts the system to a crawl… i have a 4g SD card and a 4g usb stick. It seems the performance is a lot better with the SD card since the memory is rated at 150x… without this ready boost i would not be able to run 8 machines virtually on one laptop… thank god for this feature.

It seems like the ReadyDisk technology would work well for people with older computers and low funding for hardware upgrades. Flash ram is cheap, so all power to ReadyDisk. The only problem is I cannot afford neither the switch to Vista or more RAM. So now I really only need to know one thing:

When is somebody going to write a similar program for Win XP?

It’s not a placebo, yes the access speeds seem slow but that just means it needs careful management. Ask anyone who has actually tried it under low memory conditions, it works.

My PC has 1gb ram, and while playing games I often noticed lag and/or excess paging to swap. I picked up a cheap 2gb flash drive, dedicated 100% to readyboost and now I don’t need to buy extra ram. It makes THAT much difference!

“Essentially, Vista is using around 90% of my 1 GB memory card for a large cache, still leaving me with some external storage capacity.”……….that leaves you with 100MB tops for storage space and what are you going to store with 100MB?

My ultra cheap MP3 player 4GB of storage space and I find that to be insufficient~~

Vista’s ReadyBoost is just a PLACEBO effect on users out there………limited by USB transfer rates (Maximum 480Mbit/sec = 60Mbyte/sec; actual sustained value is about 25MB ~ 35MB at the most!!).

Its one of those BS technologies that may show benefits in benchmark scoring but have no real world effects on users!!

Dont get me wrong, Vista is great with all the graphics and all……but trust me, get 2 ~ 4GB of system memory is the best way to go for Vista~~

Keep USB flash drives for its original purpose and dont use it for what its not!!!!