[calverson]

Anyone have any experience with Vista ReadyBoost on a Macbook Pro under Bootcamp and/or Parallels?

[mduell]

MacBook Pros never really shipped with a small enough amount of memory to make ReadyBoost noticeable.

[ghporter]

I don't know about that, Mark. My MBP shipped with a RAM upgrade: a whole gigabyte. It's one of the earliest versions, Core Duo and a max of 2GB RAM. But I think you're right that most MBPs are the later version that takes up to 4GB and that would mean that Ready Boost would be pretty well moot...

[calverson]

Would it be beneficial at all to use it in a virtualization program (Parallels or VirtuaBox or VMware)?

[mduell]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

I don't know about that, Mark. My MBP shipped with a RAM upgrade: a whole gigabyte. It's one of the earliest versions, Core Duo and a max of 2GB RAM. But I think you're right that most MBPs are the later version that takes up to 4GB and that would mean that Ready Boost would be pretty well moot...

It's kind of painful to think that people are running MBPs with 512MB RAM.

Originally Posted by calverson 

Would it be beneficial at all to use it in a virtualization program (Parallels or VirtuaBox or VMware)?

No.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by mduell 

It's kind of painful to think that people are running MBPs with 512MB RAM.

Yeah, you're right. I can't imagine not having the whole 2GB that I have now.