ReadyBoost not so hot?
ReadyBoost has been touted by Microsoft as a quick and easy way to increase the performance of your Windows Vista-based computer. It’s a relatively simple concept, allowing you insert a flash drive of varying capacity, and receive a boost in system performance as your CPU utilizes the storage space on the solid state storage drive as extra memory. PC World performed a number of real world benchmark tests to put ReadyBoost through its paces. The results were somewhat shocking. In most situations, ReadyBoost provided a minimal boost to system speed and in some cases even retarded the system below its non-ReadyBoost state. Hmmm. It’s worth noting that the systems on which PC World ran the tests had a healthy level of baseline RAM. As ReadyBoost is designed to be most functional in low RAM situations, it may not have been a fair exercise of the feature’s intended application. Even so, ReadyBoost is slowing down system resources? Discuss.
[Via PC World]
Excuses, excuses. This is all the more reason to enjoy my Mac.
This is simple, but not a good method to get good performance.
Are we even shocked! As I said in a previous on some other topic….when MS ever writes quality software….this result does not surprise me at all. There is a MAC or Linux box in my future.
heh.
I walked out of Best Buy yesterday with a well-spec’ed laptop that had Vista Home Premium on it. I booted it one time to Vista to get all of the hardware model numbers, then immediately formatted the drive and went down to XP. The fun was finding drivers for everything, but it’s now working masterfully.
I used Vista during BETA and now released. It’s okay. I paid nothing for it [work], but if I had to I’d opt to stay on XP. I too am looking at a new iMac [The 20" model] with SuperDrive, etc. They look good, and perform well. Plus minimal viruses, and a good UI.