Comments on: Windows Vista and a UMPC: ReadyBoost 101

By: shohug

shohug — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:17:10 +0000

please tell me how can i create ready boost on ramdisk in Xp

By: Niccolo

Niccolo — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:51:17 +0000

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

By: Niccolo

Niccolo — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:34:20 +0000

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

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:52:41 +0000

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…

By: Maitrega

Maitrega — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:42:43 +0000

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?

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:26:01 +0000

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…

By: Maitrega

Maitrega — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:04:58 +0000

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

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:02:02 +0000

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.

By: Darksat SEO

Darksat SEO — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:01:55 +0000

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.

By: Kenal0

Kenal0 — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:55:12 +0000

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