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I couldn't disagree more. Lenovo made Turbo memory a choice; an option. If you don't want it, don't get it. Choices are a good thing.
Hp apparently doesn't have all of the facts or at least they aren't sharing all of the facts. First, there is a difference between ready
boost and ready
drive. You CAN set-up turbo memory to use all 1GB of RAM for readydrive, then use up to a 4GB memory card for readyboost. It is true, as the article states, that readyboost can not be split up between to devices. However readydrive and readyboost can be split up.
TurboMemory is very new technology. From what I have researched, the benefits of TurboMemory may be more obvious after SP1 is released. It also may be more obvious after improved BIOS and/or driver updates. Sure it may not improve much more at all, but it's cheap! So no real loss as far as I'm concerned.
Now for system instability & bluescreens. I think people have been hastily blaming TurboMemory for system instability. Many people have reported vast improvements in system stability after doing a clean install and installing just the essential recent drivers needed (including TurboMemory); staying away from Lenovo's proprietary software and bloatware.
Most people who have blamed TurboMemory never even ran memtest86+ to see if maybe the problem was related to RAM (one of the biggest causes of BSODs). Well, you might say, "I got BSODs with TurboMemory enabled and they went away with TurboMemory disabled!" I say, "Sure you did!" On a system that is already unstable the addition of TurboMemory will probably cause more problems. There is also the possibility of a faulty TurboMemory card; something physically wrong with the card itself. Just like you get bad RAM every once it awhile. That doesn't mean the technology itself is bad.
If you have a system that does not have any instability issues TurboMemory will not create any new issues. This has been proven by many people in the Lenovo threads and Asus threads. There are many TurboMemory users who are using it without a hitch.
So I guess many of us are having stability issues. What does this say about the product? Some work and other don't? I had three different Vista installs in the past week on this laptop when I was trying different approaches to making it work. Well, now I know that it doesn't. Uninstall it and forget it, no more BSODs since than.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
