12-18-2006, 03:27 AM
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...rformance.mspx
Read about Ready Boost.
Another link about Ready Boost ( http://arstechnica.com/journals/micr...2006/5/25/4115) Quote:
snip - To make things more interesting, it seems as if ReadyBoost might ultimately support sharing of memory resources via a network. A few lucky bloggers recently had dinner with Jim Allchin, and he held forth on the potential coolness:
Apparently ReadyBoost wasn't just developed to add memory to your PC via your USB port. Apparently ReadyBoost was designed to allow you to "barrow" [sic] memory from other PC's over a network as well. When Mr. Allchin told us of this concept, everyone flipped.
Allchin didn't confirm if this aspect of ReadyBoost will actually make its way out into Vista proper, yet the potential is obviously there seeing as how ReadyBoost was originally intended to tap other memory resources via a network. Personally, I think the idea of networked computers sharing memory resources as needed is a great idea, and would be an awesome selling point for Vista if/when it actually happens. In the meantime, we'll just have to be content plugging in a USB drive and obsessing over the performance increases.
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