Well, as some of you may know, I have a gaming laptop. And for the most part, it’s great. But it does lack the handy RAID 0 that I miss on my old PC and of course the dual video cards, but that’s OK. Or so I thought until I started playing the damn Crysis demo! Holy crap, I thought BioShock was a little bad (I mean, I could do it with maxed out video settings at 1600×900 resolution and everything was perfectly smooth), but not Crysis, oh no. I can barely get away with everything on the ‘Medium’ setting and a 1440×1050 resolution (or whatever the hell it was)! This is a new laptop for me and I’ve played at least 10 new games on it fine and then suddenly this?! BAH HUM BUG (no early Christmas pun intended)!
Anyway, because of my frustration, I decided to look around for things I could possibly do (other than buying a new damn laptop) to help increase my overall system performance. And I’m not talking about stupid simple things like malware/virus scan, defrags, file cleaning, disk checking, startup optimizations, registry cleaning, driver updates, etc. No, I wanted something more, something maybe part software part hardware based. And then it hit me, just like that… and out of the clouds came eBoostr, ready to quench my thirst for speed! I was overjoyed to see such a small and new program to actually seem to live up to what it says it can do. And the fact that it trumps Vista’s built-in similar technology is just another plus for me. ;) Based on some initial tests, the program said I could only sustain about 10MB/s random read/write on my current HD (7200rpm 160GB SATA) but with my old USB drive I could sustain over 23MB/s?! What, how could this be? I must be dreaming! But then I ran some other practical tests and saw some decent results, so I moved on…
But that wasn’t enough, no, not for me. After doing testing with the software and realizing it’s potential, I knew I needed something better than just my old 512MB Cruzer Titanium USB drive. I needed the fastest USB drive a consumer can buy. And thus I found the amazing 4GB Corsair Flash Voyager GT . My mouth watered at the thought of a possible 25MB/s or so sustained read/write capability. I knew I must have one to get the max out of this new software. But alas, this software can handle up to 4 devices! And though I have that many USB ports, all of them buy one are in use! GAH! So what is a guy like me to do? Remember that he has a 4-in-1 card reader on his laptop as well! Here we come 4GB SD card! That should hopefully give me a good 8GB of total combined fast access cache and make me a happy camper for the rest of my days (or for the rest of this laptop’s days).
Of course, I thought about getting the 8GB versions of each above, but seriously, do you really think I crap money out of my ass every day? I’m already going out on a limb here to do the stuff I mentioned above (and thus, I graciously thank any and all donations, especially large ones… 
). Feel free to give your suggestions on other ways to improve my system performance. I’m here to help, as usual, but sometimes I need help myself. 
Oh yes, how could I forgot. Your funny link of the day is: Fox News Porn. Enjoy! 
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