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What's the point of Readyboost?
Why not just buy more RAM memory and stick it in? USB devices already show up ok in most OSs (as a drive admittedly) but why would I want my "main" memory to be external to the box?

The performance of flash memory will never be as good as "proper" RAM chips and the idea of plugging slower memory into a resource hungry OS such as Windows seems counterintuitive.
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What's the point of Readyboost?  bportlock | 01/18/07
Exactly!  ChazzMatt | 01/18/07
I can answer that  nucrash | 01/18/07
Because of bang for the buck  georgeou | 01/18/07
ReadyBoost retains its cache even when power ...  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
Not really.  Wolfie2K3 | 01/18/07
I know that is the way it works  ShadeTree | 01/19/07
Wrong!  jacec | 01/19/07
If all you have is a 512MB PC ...  mwagner@... | 01/18/07
That's a good one.  maferious | 11/18/08
A simple explanation of flash and ReadyBoost.  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
But they failed both read and write, by a mile  georgeou | 01/18/07
As always go with manufacturers you can trust.  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
You sure about that typo there?  georgeou | 01/18/07
Sorry!  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
Well they must be lying then about 120x  georgeou | 01/18/07
False advertising is subject to civil liabilities.  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
Are you sure the internal card reader is using ...  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
It's a 40 pin IDE to CF adapter  georgeou | 01/18/07
Lite-on already has a 16x SATA DVD burner for $35  georgeou | 01/18/07
I didn't say there weren't SATA Opticals.  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
$5 difference is about as close as it gets  georgeou | 01/18/07
$ 5.00 per drive added to the BOM of a ....  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
That's actually the rating used for CDROMs  georgeou | 01/18/07
I assure you that despite my typo problem ...  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
150KB = X  jacec | 01/19/07
flash memory service life  charliepiii | 01/18/07
Consumer Spending - Bring it on  netuzer | 01/18/07
Another strike against upgrading to Vista!!!  JKFentiman | 03/26/07
Wear leveling means it will last about 10 years  georgeou | 01/18/07
Really? Someone in our office tried booting XP off a flash device.  Zogg | 01/21/07
Not the same thing  georgeou | 01/21/07
Readycrutch  Mitch 74 | 01/18/07
So?  bradt | 01/19/07
Grammar recommendations  MillenneumMan | 01/18/07
My favorite is this one...  techboy_z | 01/18/07
Ok, thanks  georgeou | 01/18/07
Huh? Five times faster isn't enough...???  jinko | 01/18/07
It's not good enough on average  georgeou | 01/18/07
by the way---  puppadave | 01/18/07
Marketing lies in other industries about performance too.  osreinstall | 01/18/07
Next we will start bashing Lawnmowers  nucrash | 01/18/07
Why not? These discussions can go anywhere.  osreinstall | 01/18/07
I HAVE ONE GIG OF MEMORY IN MY COMPUTER  BALTHOR | 01/18/07
What in the world are you shouting about.  ShadeTree | 01/18/07
Don't mind him  nucrash | 01/18/07
Unreal BIOS  bradt | 01/19/07
George, did you set the devices to "Optimize for performance"?  jacec | 01/19/07
opt. for perf. is for write cache  joeypruett@... | 01/19/07
USB 2 flash drive is plenty fast--its windows/virus ware that's the problem  NuttyBuddy | 01/19/07
Uninstall Norton and try again.  osreinstall | 01/19/07
File transfers in WinXP  M.R. Kennedy | 01/20/07
Vista's performance index isn't 0-6  PB_z | 01/19/07
6 is the current asymptote, and it's a stupid scale  georgeou | 01/20/07
Not really a benchmark?  pj_mouse | 01/20/07
How does it give an "impression" of the performance?  georgeou | 01/20/07

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