Sweetness

Well I'm sure you all have seen the zbrush3 video...I caaaaan't wait for that! Since I'm still on a vista kick I thought I would share a freakin' sweet feature I read about and tested. Readyboost. Readyboost is the ability to take a USB 2.0 Flash drive and use it as virtual memory. You may say "But Pat, hard drives are faster for storing information!" True but flash drives excel in transfering smaller bits of data so for this purpose it's ideal. So when you plug a thumb drive in and use it for readyboost memory you will notice a little snap in vistas step. I was skeptical but it worked out pretty well. Tried running applications with aero turned off and on with and without readyboost and it makes a difference. I'm getting myself a nice 4 gig flash drive for Zbrush and Mudbox :D

I thumbed through the zbrushcentral.com forums and noticed Aurick talking about Zbrush 2.5 and vista (older post obviously) but he mentioned 2.5 being developed for x64 and Vista and said it sees Readyboost as memory so how sweet it will be to crank up those polygons!