OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20768/Instant-on_Technology_to_Take_Netbooks_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2010, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:33 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Does someone remeber the Palm Foleo? http://osnews.com/thread?343408 http://osnews.com/thread?343408 No.No!NO! No cussing! It is not nice.

You have to admit that as much it was a complete failure the instant switch on due to using palm Garnet was cool.

I would love to see that on our PCs and not only on notebooks. Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (capricorn_tm) Comments relax http://osnews.com/thread?343479 http://osnews.com/thread?343479 What kind of society have we become? We can't wait a minute for a PC to start up? Sad. Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments Amiga http://osnews.com/thread?343521 http://osnews.com/thread?343521 Well, Amiga is instant OFF atleast :-D Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bugjacobs) Comments RE: relax http://osnews.com/thread?343527 http://osnews.com/thread?343527
What kind of society have we become? We can't wait a minute for a PC to start up? Sad.


I sort-of agree... but at the same time, try telling me to relax when I'm late at the airport trying to checking and have forgotten my online booking reference ;-) There are circumstances where I'd be only too happy *not* to have time to make a coffee whilst waiting for boot. Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mark Williamson) Comments RE[2]: relax http://osnews.com/thread?343562 http://osnews.com/thread?343562
... try telling me to relax when I'm late at the airport trying to checking and have forgotten my online booking reference ;-) There are circumstances where I'd be only too happy *not* to have time to make a coffee whilst waiting for boot...


You could live without such feature all your life and the humanity could live without such feature since the beginnings of the times, so, maybe it is not as urgent as we all think! Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE[3]: relax http://osnews.com/thread?343624 http://osnews.com/thread?343624
You could live without such feature all your life and the humanity could live without such feature since the beginnings of the times, so, maybe it is not as urgent as we all think!


Yep - I basically agree that it's good not to be in such a rush. And you shouldn't regularly be in a rush if you plan stuff properly. I'm just pointing out that sometimes basically everyone finds themselves in a hurry and then it'd be nice not to have to wait for your computer. As long as it doesn't harm you in other ways, I think it would be handy to have.

For most of the time humanity has been alive we've neither had access to computers nor even electricity - yet I'm guessing that most people here are glad they have those, even if they're not strictly needed! Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mark Williamson) Comments Linpus http://osnews.com/thread?343684 http://osnews.com/thread?343684 Linpus Lite on the Acer Aspire One is about as "instant-on" as I've seen on a netbook. Takes about 10 seconds, no special hardware, just a customized operating system.

Netbooks, as long as they are not running an obsolete proprietary operating system, can boot up a regular system in 10 seconds. Instant-on is needed for computers that ship with non-instant-on operating systems, i.e. full notebooks. I think Lenovo and co have got it arse around backwards. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments RE: Linpus http://osnews.com/thread?343752 http://osnews.com/thread?343752 I agree, it's not that our present day OSes can't boot fast, it is all the cruft that get added (by both users and manufacturers) that slow the boot process.

Worse, even that extra stuff would not slow down booting if written/invoked to run *AFTER* the basic OS has booted.

My BeOS startup folder is full of code that I invoke 15 seconds after the boot script is called. All of it is stuff that I use, none of it is stuff I needed right at the moment I turn on my computer.

Most OSes today seem to be packed with services that the user rarely needs but are always invoked in the boot process before the user is allowed to do anything with their computer. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Earl Colby pottinger) Comments Comment by darrelljon http://osnews.com/thread?343768 http://osnews.com/thread?343768 Computers have always been instant on ie. booting up within seconds such as the Amiga and Atari. It is only been the last 15 years (since around Windows 95) that we've put up with boot ups that take minutes. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darrelljon) Comments