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With all of the fuss about Vista and Windows 7 – and there’s no denying that MSFT could have done a better job over the past few years – there are a couple features that are actually pretty cool.

Of particular note is something called readyboost, which allows you to use a USB flash drive as an instant RAM boost. The thumbdrive serves as an additional memory cache that can be accessed much more quickly than data on a hard drive. I don’t know how much of a long-term solution this is, but it’s pretty slick, given that it would take me a LONG long time to do the same thing with a linux box.

Speaking of flash drives, and this is specifically for Ryan Johnson, it’s time to eat your corn flakes:

a hi-tech band embedded with a 1 Gigabyte USB flash drive pre-loaded with exclusive Star Trek content

… you just need 8 UPC codes from specially marked Kellog cereal boxes.