Words Of Wisdom said:
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I have readyboost enabled and in use and honestly as far as general usage goes, I see zero impact upon the performance of the desktop (and the same for gaming), I think it's a waste of a good 8GB USB stick! MS are effectively saying 'Yeah, we've fucked up with Vista, so for you to even have any kind of efficiency from it, you gotta shell out for it, give us a USB drive now and see what we mean.' You've read the articles with the Readyboost / SuperFetch benchmarks right, and how minimal the performance increase is with 2GB of ram...
My point is - you just shouldn't have to.
With that said I may give vLite a go, when I do eventually go back to XP I have an nLite'd disc ready at the size of under 300 MB with pretty much the same full functionality as it should have. A fresh install takes you to a desktop using less than 70MB of RAM, an incredibly quick start up time even after months of using it and still low memory usage (around 200-250MB).
I'll be interested to see how this MinWin kernel turns out, IIRC it should end up with having the base OS at a size of something around 40MB, obviously before things such as even a GUI are thrown in there.
