"moose" <moose@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> my laptop has 512mb ram, and to run vista home premium 'properly' i
> need
> 1gig according to the windows vista requirements. I want to get the
> full
> benefits of vista (like aero).
> if i had a flash drive would it increase my ram to allow me to have
> 3d aero
> etc.
> i currently have a kingston data traveller 1 gb pen drive that i use
> for
> college. i have also seen a "corsair turboFlash windows ready boost
> accelerator". it comes in 512mb and 1gb, 1gb costs around £15. will
> these
> work in the way that i want them to and is worth me buying them.
> thanks
> www.corsair.com (search for turboflash)
>

ReadyBoost is not about adding more RAM to your system by USB it is
about improving data access as the USB memory is treated like an extra
fast pagefile.
So if you need more RAM then buy it, ReadyBoost is not your answer.

--

Mike Brannigan

"moose" <moose@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A4CA93D2-75D1-4257-9DAA-9AF5CC38E783@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> my laptop has 512mb ram, and to run vista home premium 'properly' i
> need
> 1gig according to the windows vista requirements. I want to get the
> full
> benefits of vista (like aero).
> if i had a flash drive would it increase my ram to allow me to have
> 3d aero
> etc.
> i currently have a kingston data traveller 1 gb pen drive that i use
> for
> college. i have also seen a "corsair turboFlash windows ready boost
> accelerator". it comes in 512mb and 1gb, 1gb costs around £15. will
> these
> work in the way that i want them to and is worth me buying them.
> thanks
> www.corsair.com (search for turboflash)
>
> "Funkspiel" wrote:
>
>> I like the Patriot XPorter XT 2gb.
>> Compatibility chart here:
>>
>> http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/
>>
>>
>>
>> "Chupacabra" wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > "Chris" <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
>> > news:gz5YoaDWVqBFFwgY@[127.0.0.1]...
>> >
>> > > What's the best usb memory stick to augment RAM?
>> > > I haven't got one at the moment - so I might as well get a good
>> > > one.
>> > > Is it as fast as RAM?
>> >
>> > I bought a Kingston Data Traveler on sale this week at Circuit
>> > City.
>> > Supposed to be one of the faster drives, especially for random
>> > access, and
>> > it was mentioned on a site I found as being one of the few that
>> > works with
>> > ReadyBoost.
>> >
>> > Vista RC1 accepted it just find and I dedicated 860MB out of 1GB
>> > to
>> > ReadyBoost. Not sure I can see much difference yet, but my
>> > system has 2GB
>> > of RAM already as well.
>> >
>> >
>> >