As the others have said, you need to add memory to your laptop.
Minimum requirements posted by Microsoft and real world requirements
have always been different. In the real world, Vista needs1GB of memory,
2 GB or more for the best performance.

As far as ReadyBoost - MS has published minimum requirements.
Not all flash drives meet these requirements. I think now with Vista released
to the general public, you will start seeing Vista Ready flash drives.

In the meantime - check out this info. Scroll down to
"Rules for ReadyBoost Drives"

http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/winvistafaq.htm



"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)
>
> "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.
>> >
>> >
>> >