Alright…I noticed last time I downloaded a bunch of pics off of my camera’s SD card that Windows 7 asked if I wanted to speed my system with Readyboost.  As far as I can figure out, Win7 will use USB falsh drives and other memory cards as a flash memory cache — essentially giving you more RAM (well, freeing up your system resources by using the card.)

So I plugged a spare 4gb SD Card into my machine — an HP TX2510US tablet with a dual processor (2.2MHz, I believe), 3GB memory, 64-bit architecture and Windows 7 Home Premium OS.  They I started opening things like crazy:  WordPerfect with 6 different graphic heavy files, Acrobat with multiple large files, email, Firefox with 6 different windows open and Java-heavy sites, Trillian, solitarie and mahjong, Quicktime movie, a Windows media movie, and a Real Player movie all going simultaneously.

The system never slowed, and the CPUs never got above 50-60% total, RAM usage was about 60ish%.  Shut down of the computer took 20 seconds; boot 1:20 minutes (about 10 seconds shaved off of the last boot time.)

I’ve been very impressed with Windows 7, period, and it’s made my tablet much faster and stable than it was under Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium.  The addition of the SD card on Readyboost seems to have given the machine more flexibility on heavy multi-tasking.

Almost a month on Windows 7.  Thumbs still up.