A USB drive does NOT supplement RAM. Think of it a a faster pagefile.

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"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.
>> >
>> >
>> >