Katherine Druckman

I am so tempted by all of this Vista Frenzy…  The ready boost feature alone is so tempting… 

We redesigned the memory manager in Windows Vista so that if you give the system more memory, it uses that memory much more efficiently than previous operating systems via a technique called SuperFetch — part of Windows Vista’s intelligent heuristic memory management system.  And so Windows Vista on a PC with even more than 1 GB of primary memory (say 2 GB) will generally outperform Windows XP on that same machine — especially once you have been using the machine for some time because Windows Vista learns what you do the most often and optimizes for this.

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