Originally Posted by
number_6
....Lenovo also offers the cool 1GB Readyboost flash on the motherboard option, which works great (but some report problems with this new technology). It works a lot better than using USB flash memory (speeds boot by a lot, over 50% faster).
I found a PATA to CF adapter at Akihabara in Tokyo. So I loaded WindowsXP on a 2GB card and plugged it in a Thinkpad. While the booting is faster, 2GB for running WindowsXP is simply too small. 8GB is probably the minimum size to work well. May be I should add a HDD back in it to handle the swap files.
I am using 7200rpm drive in my home computer and frankly I can't tell the speed difference.