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by marketer 6354 days ago
It's funny how they never say how much RAM this computer has.

Vista has a feature called 'superfetch' which pre-caches applications in memory so they're never actually loaded from disk. Also, it's hard to tell, but if this computer has sufficient RAM, you could conceivable load everything directly from memory.

Also, the fragmentation test was a little dubious. A computer that new would have very little file fragmentation, so of course defragging would be fast.

That said, it was an entertaining video!
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jerf 6354 days ago
If superfetch explains that, than surely anyone with 4GB can replicate the performance within a factor of two or three. Can anybody with Vista replicate that? (I don't have Vista and have never used it, so I have no idea, though honestly, if Vista is superfetching 53 programs I'd be a little annoyed.)

Fragmentation test... well, it is a marketing video, after all. The real question is "why defragment an SSD at all?"

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cottsak 6354 days ago
it did say - 4gb.

ans yes, i totally agree (re Superfetch)... even with XP, after loading an app once, windows was able to fetch the data again much faster the second time. They should have showed the tests from power to boot to tests.

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