Sounds to me like the feature will be able to be leveraged whether you have a new PC or not, basically plug in a USB drive and go.
One question I have. Flash memory has a finite number of read/write operations before it starts to corrupt. Granted, the number is in the hundreds of thousands of operations, but that's way lower than magnetic disks. What happens when your Speedboost-ed OS goes poof? Also, you can install and run your OS off a flash device today if your mobo supports it. I have a little firewall (custom hardware from Soekris) that boots from a flash card. I might try installing Linux on a Flash drive to see how it performs. On 12/5/06, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VISTA is due out next year for consumers, end of January. > > But, some people may wish to purchase computers now. Sure you can get > a kick ass machine with lots of RAM, the new 8800GTX DX10 Card from > Nvidia etc. today...but would you be spending money 'behind the curve' > when new systems are due out in a month or so? > > VISTA has three new features- SuperFetch and ReadyBoost and I forget > the third. Basically these are supposed to use FLASH memory to load > parts of the OS and frequently run programs,as well as to speed up > Boot times (rumored to be near instantaneous in some cases). > > You are supposed to be able to stick just about any USB 2.0 drive that > meets the speed requirements into your machine (Some have hit 8GB > apparently) and VISTA will do some fancy stuff and use the USB drive > as the FLASH memory for its superfetch operations. This bypasses your > 'slow' hard disk entirely. > > However, the concern is will the top tier enthusiast manufacturers be > bringing out machines with special VISTA features? For example > including a FLASH board in the machine itself, or configuring the BIOS > and system so that you get the 'Instant On' feature out the box etc. > > I'm not seeing any postings on the technology sites about this sort of > thing, but I'm thinking it should be something that the Enthusiast > manufacturers (Alienware, Dell XPS, Velocity, WidowPC,Voodoo PC, > Falcon NW etc.) will provide. > > On the other hand, if these features aren't as fantastic performance > wise as they appear to be on paper, then no manufacturer is going to > setup machines specifically to take advantage of them. They will leave > it up to the consumer to use a USB stick or other method if they so > desire. > > Has anyone heard anything about these features? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221768 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
