Adding a USB flash drive will not allow Aero Glass to run on a machine that
couldn't run it otherwise. It may improve your performance by moving some
code from virtual memory on your hard disk to the faster memory of the flash
drive. The general consensus of early users is that it's difficult to notice
the difference on systems with >512mb. YMMV.

As to which flash drives will work with Readyboost, I wish the manufacturers
would start posting their capability to be used or not because at this time
it's very confusing and it seems a lot more don't work than do. Buyer
beware.

"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.
>> >
>> >
>> >