* Stephan Rose:
Quote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:05:09 -0700, rminnis82 wrote:
> Quote:
>> Well thats not actually true. The X41 has 1.5Ghz Centrino with 1.5GB RAM
>> and when the SD card is added it makes a massive difference.
>
> Yea, I can see the massive difference it is making by your original post.
> Your entire system becomes laggy, I admit, that's quite a massive
> difference.
> Quote:
>> The Z60m has the maximum 2GB RAM combination possible, and any extra
>> help in a slot never to be used cant be bad.
>
> Actually yes it *can* be bad.
>
> Flash memory is by magnitudes slower than RAM. Adding it to a system as a
> substitute for RAM helps with systems around 512 megs of RAM or so that'd
> otherwise be constantly writing to the HDD instead. And even there,
> improvements can't really be guaranteed.
>
> If you already have 1.5 gigs of RAM, you're looking at next to nothing to
> gain by adding Flash memory.
>
> Even on systems where ready boost has been reported to actually give some
> improvements, any improvements started to disappear at the 1 gig mark on
> any benchmarks I've seen so far. Stephan,
You are correct. I have three machines currently running Vista,
all three have 2GB of RAM, and the only time I have ever noticed a
*little* bit of help from ReadyBoost is when I am using a virtual machine.
ReadyBoost is one of the most over-hyped features of Vista, by far.
-Michael