ReadyBoost Changed My Mind Replacing Vista with XP
I am a huge fan of Thinkpads ever since I saw the first one. I became even bigger fan after having the chance of using one of them at Comverse during a training. I was then so happy to get one of them for myself last year.
Not for long as it had Vista installed as default so I opted not to change this and try to cope with my stuff using vista. However, my joy of using my Thinkpad did not last for long as it really underperformed regarding what I expected from it even though it has good hardware. As the number of files on my laptop grew in detriment of free space, I was feeling the system slower and slower which was occasionally leading to some applications freezing and my losing my temper closing them after too much time looking at frozen windows.
I intentionally don't mention any specs or numbers - it's because I am talking about the experience of using a newly built laptop from a reputable brand.
Then a colleague reminded me of using Vista's ReadyBoost as a way to speed up my OS and thus applications. Next day I bought a 4 GB MicroSD card and made Vista use it - this changed alot. I did not expent such a drastic change in applications' performance when using this feature and this also made me rethink my plans to change the operating system while waiting for a new version that fixes the slow speed problem. Or buy more RAM.
Happy user again.
21.8.2009
