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Readyboost option for Mac OS X?

princealfie

princealfie

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Mar 7, 2006
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Any option to allow you to add "virtual RAM" using a USB flash drive similar to the Vista Readyboost feature?

That would be cool if Mac OS X had something like this :D
 
I haven't been able to get it to work. Tried with many new fast usb drives but every time it has said that it doesn't meet the required specs.

Also i don't think that it will make any difference if you have a reasonable amount of ram.

Readyboost imo was designed to lessen the choke that vista puts on older system.
 
I would use it, not that apple would ever do it. If it came free on OS X I would definitely use a high speed flash drive to try to boost my ram when i'm running way to many programs AKA:photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, and flash.
 
lgoodlove said:
I would use it, not that apple would ever do it. If it came free on OS X I would definitely use a high speed flash drive to try to boost my ram when i'm running way to many programs AKA:photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, and flash.
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I don't think that's how ReadyBoost works. It doesn't make you have more RAM. ReadyBoost is a disk cache. It intelligently caches frequently used programs and data where random read is VERY fast on flash drives compared to hard drive. The best way to boost performance is to add more RAM (up to a point).
 
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