questions about readyboost and fingerprint scanner. thanks.

i just got my tablet on monday. i am also new to vista. so there is " windows readyboost" which requires a sd card. how big the storage needs to be? what class? would someone reccomand one on new--egg for me? how do i set the readyboost up? how much time do you save on boot up? thank you very much. clean install? what's the difference after it?

i also have intel turbo 1g, so the readyboost through sdhc card doesnt work?

i am wondering if i could create a folder and only using the fingerprint scanner can access it. thanks.

 

You can either have Intel TurboMemory or Readyboost, not both. Neither make much, if any, difference to computing speeds.

 

I would agree that computing speeds wouldn't be affected much by TurboMemory, but, and I'm not an expert on this by any stretch, I would also think that certain operations like running virtual machines and such would greatly benefit from it. Can someone else confirm that?

I still don't understand ReadyBoost at all, so I'm not sure if it does the same thing as TurboMemory or not.

 

From what I understand about readyboost, it uses your flash memory(memory card, thumbdrive) as swap(page file) memory. If you're using 4gb ram with vista, you will have near zero performance gains as Windows rarely uses swap.

But if you're running on 512 -1gb ram, you might see some significant performance gain, especially with class 6 SDHC. Google for some benchmarks.

 

can you explain? im confused on what you mean. i could be mistaken but i believe the technology (or the physical chip) is called intel Turbomemory. This technology is what supports Readydrive and Readyboost. If you have the integrated Turbomemory, then you are defaulted to 512 Readydrive, and 512 Readyboost. In order to use a larger SD card or thumbstick for Readyboost, then you have to disable the original 512 in the software manager. Then you can use whatever you want for ReadyBoost.

I would ready reviews for how SD cards work with Readyboost. Some are already made to be speed compliant which I think is just to help market it. If you want a rock solid card, then you can lose with Sandisk Extreme II cards. They are expensive but work great for any use and are fast.

 

TurboMemory (Robson) uses an internal chip. Readyboost uses an external flash drive. They both serve the same purpose - act like a cache and take advantage of flash memory's much faster seek times to speed up retrieval. Both are good ideas on paper, but lead to near 0 performance increases when the user has 2 or more gigabytes of RAM.

 

Thanks for the response Lith,

The Turbomemory chip that came in my R61 has 512 Readyboost and 512 Readydrive. It seems that you can use any form of available memory for the readyboost side of things. Turbomemory is basically just an intel internal NAND memory chip(s) that can be setup as either Readyboost or Readydrive. The Turbomemory "architecture" is really where the money is at. I agree that it doesnt do much now, but i think the future looks good for the technology. Readyboost and Readydrive will both have their advantages. I read an article a while back on "Codename Robson" that stated that you should use 1.5X your Ram to really use the technology. I think once the drivers are properly written and hardware integrates better it will be worth it.

Here's the intel question to the answer. They explain it better than I especially since they wrote it.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ditch VISTA. I got VISTA Business on my X61T and it was a slow slow pig even after doing all the tweaks those here have suggested. It would use about 1GB of memory upon boot, crazy!

I "downgraded" to XP and haven't looked back. It's amazingly fast and doesn't crash. Turbo memory is a joke BTW and why Lenovo would ship out a notebook with faulty preloaded drivers is even more of a joke.

So please get XP!

 

Just curious, but did you try a brand new, clean install of Vista as well, or just the image that was supplied by the manufacturer? Also, how much total RAM did you have, that Vista's method of "using" (allocating, actually) 1GB on boot caused a problem?

 

Don't feed the trolls.

 

Yes, I did a clean install of VISTA Business on my system with 3 GB of RAM. The ThinkVantage bloatware is a big issue and I didn't re-install most of it, but VISTA still is a resources hog. The issues with Turbo Memory put me over the edge and I went back to XP. It's like night and day! I also get an extra 1:20 mins battery life in the 8 cell with XP over VISTA.