"Microsoft has built a very innovative feature into Vista and they've called it ReadyBoost. This allows a user to utilize a USB flash drive as supplemental memory for your computer. The system, Vista, will ask you what you want to do with this flash memory. Would you like to use it for traditional storage or would you like to use it to optimize your system. And you have that choice. So you can supplement your memory with your flash drive."
And while using a flash drive may slow down performance a bit… it will be an improvement over the use of hard drive space for added memory. Even if you aren't planning to move to Windows Vista any time soon…adding memory is one of the most cost effective ways to improve computer performance. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.