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Scotty: There’s a 4GB limit on how much memory you can use for ReadyBoost, so that 32GB drive is probably overkill.

If I had an SSD drive in my handtop, would ReadyBoost help?

I’ve seen at least one other benchmark result on the web that puts the 800 MHz A1xx chips at the performance level of the Celeron processors. One thing is clear, better battery life means you must throttle the processor back.

Frank, I’m sure we’re not using the same USB flash drive, so that will have an impact: different read/write speeds, for example. I’m also running Vista Ultimate on a smaller drive partition.

a, I’m not sure what ‘people who own big UMPCs’ means, but I do understand and appreciate what the new Intel processors are meant to and what they compete against. I’ve drawn no conclusions on the new CPUs based on my one test above; I simply said it was interesting because it is to me. We’ve had a number of readers ask about the expected performance of Vista or the 600- and 800 MHz A1xx chips, so I pulled in the comparison. An Intel processor that consumes less power is good for the UMPC market and I’ve never said otherwise.

Ready boost is only a high speed cache when it comes to random data access. Current flash is much much slower than a HDD for sequential ’stream’ access. Also writes are much slower than reads. My understanding is that it is not really implemented as a general purpose disk cache, but rather for optimizing app startup and pre-fetch etc. I’m still not sure how this translates to real word performance.

On the Q1 I stopped using it before I could get a feel for it though. I find that hanging a USB dongle off the end of the UMPC not only looks odd, but increases my likelihood of me breaking something. Although I could be convinced to plug it back in if someone could show me that it saved battery life.

besides, i would never compare these benchmarks floating around of highly optimized enthusiasts machines versus 1 lousy default Q1u configuration.

who cares about ReadyBOB ?
just set bios to always boot from usb stick, or get IDE socket and SSD drive for 5 bucks.
Clearly this is another feature some ‘architect’ did not think over.

who cares about ReadyBOB ?
just set bios to always boot from usb stick, or get IDE socket and SSD drive for 5 bucks.
Clearly this is another feature some ‘architect’ did not think over.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39128821@N00/481963977/

I wonder why I’m getting a higher score. I’m using Vista Business.

great info – ReadyBoost on the q1p would certainly be better if it were supported with the Compact Flash card. Using ReadyBoost as a USB stick is a bit cumbersome and problematic due to having to remember the darn thing and then having something stick out.

I just picked up a Sony Vaio UX380N and a Sandisk Extreme III 2GB Memory Stick Duo. I’ll compare data before and after ReadyBoost return later with the results. It’ll be sometime in the next few days.

My 8GB Corsair GT USB drive delivers 32MB per second reading. But then its $100.

I just won an eBay auction for a 32GB USB drive for $112. I’m curious to see if it actually has 32GB in it and how fast it is. It might just be usable as a SSD and skip the whole ReadyBoost feature.