Several once-handy features in Windows have been rendered obsolete thanks to hardware advancements. One of these is ReadyBoost—if you're still trying to use it in 2025, you might be doing more ...

On the first run, without ReadyBoost, the laptop scored 2,240 in PCMark 2005, and on the second run with a 2GB USB key and ReadyBoost enabled, it achieved 2,414 -- an eight per cent increase in ...