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The Readyboost Difference

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Many of you have heard of one of Vista's new features named Readyboost.  I lent Yizhe, one of the local Singapore Microsoft Student Partners, a 1 GB thumbdrive to test it out and he claimed there were significant performance improvements when he was playing games.

Here's an article that describes the benefits in a bit more detail:

https://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/08/analysis_vista_ready_boost/

"Based on our test results, these two features can improve application launch time on Vista-appropriate computers by 50 to 70%."