Calling to W500 owners..

[abced123]

As the owners of the tablet, you may know the tablet got a non-upgradeable 2GB RAM in which a fixed amount of 384MB assigned to video card and only 1.6GB left available for OS/apps/etc.
I mostly use the tablet for web browsing, email, documents, but not much of games. So, I believe 128MB shared to GPU is efficient . Therefore, I'm asking any owner outthere in the same boat like me writing/asking Acer ( which I already did) to give us the option in BIOS to set the shared amount of RAM for GPU like 128/256/384 MB. With 200MB (~10%) more for OS it will help the tablet run faster a bit !

[Hussainr]

this will be nice , i m in

[{StatuSChecKa}]

Sorry, but anything to help the display perform in a high quality and reliable manner I'm all for. I say give more ram to the GPU..

[Flamingfarts]

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Why not using a high performance Sd Card or a low profile usb key as a dedicated readyboost device ?

as for example , if you dont use the W500 keyboard this type of usb key should be nice

http://www.lexar.com/products/lexar-...0?category=214

[feuertier]

Either my SD cards aren't good enough, or the W500 SD card controller can't support ReadyBoost. Can someone confirm they have an SD card working with ReadyBoost on the W500?

[jnjroach]

If the computer has an SSD which the Acer has, Readyboost is not supported as it will not offer any performance benefit. Readyboost is designed to move a part of the Pagefile to faster flash memory compared to a spinning disk. Since most SSDs are faster than the available Flash Memory Devices (USB or SD) Windows usually disables Readyboost.

I don't own a W500 so I'm not sure how fast the SSD is, but on my HP Slate and on my Toshiba Libretto Readyboost was disabled.

[feuertier]

If the computer has an SSD which the Acer has, Readyboost is not supported as it will not offer any performance benefit. Readyboost is designed to move a part of the Pagefile to faster flash memory compared to a spinning disk. Since most SSDs are faster than the available Flash Memory Devices (USB or SD) Windows usually disables Readyboost.

I don't own a W500 so I'm not sure how fast the SSD is, but on my HP Slate and on my Toshiba Libretto Readyboost was disabled.

It is an option when I right-click on the device in my computer, but the analysis says that they are not ReadyBoost eligible/compatible.

I guess we'll see if more people try this. However, the processor being the main bottleneck, anyway, I don't know what performance increases could be had based on yoru statement about SSDs. I guess I wouldn't mind moving some page files to an SD, though, as I'd rather wear one of those out first.

[Flamingfarts]

well i don't have a SD card , but i tested readyboost with a Patriot 8GB usb key and i was able to enable readyboost and it worked.

A readyboost SD card would be more practical.

[jnjroach]

If Windows allowed you to use Readyboost on a SSD equipped machine, Acer used a very slow SSD

[zeke009]

If Windows allowed you to use Readyboost on a SSD equipped machine, Acer used a very slow SSD

I would agree, I bench marked my W500 with a few tools and saw speeds of 150 Read and 30 Write. The 255/170 rating of the Kingston SSD I'm looking seem promising for a nice speed improvement.