Vista's External Memory Device technology will boost demand for Flash first [http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/14/windows_vista_flash_booster_tech/]. It allows the system to grab USB-connected storage as system memory, using the addition capacity as a half-way house between a true RAM disk and the hard drive. Vista copies over apps and data it anticipates the user will want, allowing them to be subsequently read into RAM far more quickly than they would from the hard drive.

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