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?
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Hi duralex and welcome back.
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.
With the cheap cost of aditional RAM, buying extre RAM represents a far better and workable solution than using ReadyBoost.
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.
Just a useless gimmick.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/readyboost.mspx
Thank you Blencogo. As I suspected Bill is trowing sand in our eyes. 
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