Readyboost w/ 2gb vs 3gb ram

What would perform better? A laptop with 2gb ram and using readyboost with a 1gb sd card, or a laptop with 3gb ram. They are identical laptops.

Is readyboost the same as robinson turbo memory? Because i hear that the robinson can speed up the startup of the laptop. And also it increases the battery life.

Does readyboost do the same? or should i just get 3gb ram.

 

Both turbo memory and ready boost are useless so far, and have proven to possibly lower the performance of your pc. the extra 1GB or RAM is a major upgrade, and will actually help speeds.

Btw, couldn't you check the forums? I'm shure I've responded to this topic just yesterday!

Oh, and you can't use readyboost with that type of memory, usually only USB memory sticks are fast enough. Unless your SD card is crazy fast, readyboost will reject it.

 

There are SD cards available that support readyboost, quite a few in fact.

 

Get a 3GB RAM over the 2GB RAM + 1GB flash setup. It will be of your money's worth for the performance.

 

3gb of ram would be the smarter investment.

 

is this true and is there any evidence to back up this claim as i am using a 2gb card with 4gb ram in vista 64 and if what you say is true then im better off disabling it to prevent performance lowering.

i only used it as reports i seen said it was used heavily by vista for storing small files as cache which i would have thought was more efficient than not having it and just using pagefile and memory.

who is correct??

 

does readyboost increases the battery life and lower startup time though?

 

ReadyBoost wouldn't increase battery life because all the files cached to the drive are also copied to the hard drive in case you remove the readyboost drive. As for startup times, I'm not sure.

 

readyboost is only really useful if you are running out of ram.

if you had like 512 megs of ram on vista, you need more. you can band aid that with readyboost (even though the REAL solution to the problem is to add more ram)

if you have 4 GIGS of ram, you DO NOT need readyboost. if you have the choice 2 gigs of ram + readyboost (size is irrelevant) vs 3 gigs of ram, always take the ram. plus, once you are at about 2 gigs of ram (maybe a little more for gaming in vista) you are completely set and you do not need readyboost at all.