We have been all over trying to enhance the performance of Vista on our mobile PCs here at jkOnTheRun and if you look around you’ll find all kind of things we’ve done, some successful and some not so much. One of the new features of Windows Vista is the ReadyBoost feature that uses external memory like a USB flash drive to cache stuff and speed up your system. I have tried ReadyBoost on the Fujitsu P1610 and on an HP tc1100 Tablet PC and quite frankly I’ve never seen a performance enhancement and I couldn’t understand what all the hoopla was about. According to PC World it’s no surprise that I haven’t seen what the big deal is because according to their analysis ReadyBoost is another of those "looks good on paper" technologies that falls short on delivery.
Windows Vista’s Windows ReadyBoost sounds too good to betrue, and based on our extensive lab tests, it is. The technology promises tolet you speed up Windows by plugging an inexpensive USB flash drive into yourPC. But we found that while ReadyBoost may speed up Vista a tiny bit, it canalso slow it down in some instances.
Their findings match my own experience trying to get a boost from ReadyBoost. In my case I used a couple of SanDisk Cruzer "enhanced for ReadyBoost" 2 GB USB drives.
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