topic Re: Windows ReadyBoost in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142365#M68992 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi duralex and welcome back.<BR /><BR />ReadyBoost is a bit of a useless tool for most people. The additional memory from a flash card is only used by Vista as additional Virtual Memory if you have insufficient RAM installed. It will create a pagefile on the flash drive rather than on your hard drive.<BR /><BR />With the cheap cost of aditional RAM, buying extre RAM represents a far better and workable solution than using ReadyBoost.<BR /><BR />It could be a benefit to someone with a very old PC that will only take 512MB of RAM and no more but I doubt it because it assumes that the flash memory is quicker than retrieval from your hard disc swapfile - and in practice this is not usually the case for large files.<BR /><BR />Just a useless gimmick.<BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/readyboost.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/readyboost.mspx</A><BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.co.uk/html/@0248C33DDCF34AA61B8F8F33F5AFA5BE/images/smilies/013.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:53:30 GMT Blencogo 2007-09-12T17:53:30Z Windows ReadyBoost https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142363#M68991 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.co.uk/html/@1171BA8DDFC7DB19A6C03A53D2CB08A6/images/smilies/005.png" alt=":laughing:" title=":laughing:" /> Hi everyone, back with a brand new vaio. This one comes with vista, and I was wondering if anyone could explain the porpouse of vista's readyboost. How does it work and what are the beneficts, ore not?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:21:55 GMT https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142363#M68991 duralex 2007-09-12T11:21:55Z Re: Windows ReadyBoost https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142365#M68992 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi duralex and welcome back.<BR /><BR />ReadyBoost is a bit of a useless tool for most people. The additional memory from a flash card is only used by Vista as additional Virtual Memory if you have insufficient RAM installed. It will create a pagefile on the flash drive rather than on your hard drive.<BR /><BR />With the cheap cost of aditional RAM, buying extre RAM represents a far better and workable solution than using ReadyBoost.<BR /><BR />It could be a benefit to someone with a very old PC that will only take 512MB of RAM and no more but I doubt it because it assumes that the flash memory is quicker than retrieval from your hard disc swapfile - and in practice this is not usually the case for large files.<BR /><BR />Just a useless gimmick.<BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/readyboost.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/readyboost.mspx</A><BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.co.uk/html/@0248C33DDCF34AA61B8F8F33F5AFA5BE/images/smilies/013.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:53:30 GMT https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142365#M68992 Blencogo 2007-09-12T17:53:30Z Re: Windows ReadyBoost https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142367#M68993 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you Blencogo. As I suspected Bill is trowing sand in our eyes. <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.co.uk/html/@ACFB640931836ADAA652DC20D2A2D795/images/smilies/042.png" alt=":angry:" title=":angry:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:18:31 GMT https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-readyboost/m-p/142367#M68993 duralex 2007-09-13T08:18:31Z