Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 11:12 UTC, submitted by Dave
Intel is showing off a future technology called Robson that could cut that annoying boot-up time. With Robson, a PC pulls data and applications off an add-in flash memory card and Intel software, rather than the PC's hard drive. Flash reacts more quickly than hard drives, thus cutting down the time it takes to launch an application. Potentially, notebook users could experience a longer battery life because the hard drive, which is spun by a motor, wouldn't have to work as hard.
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2005-07-07
My old Powerbook 100 could do that as well. I could store the OS and a word processor on the RAM disk and start and run quicker + only spin up the hard drive for periodic safety copies. Worked well and tremendously increased battery life.
So what is there to this besides a Flash card with an OS on it? I don't see much need for "Intel software" unless it's a BIOS that makes their flash card bootable. For that matter, I'd rather have it on a removable USB2 or Firewire drive that could move to other machines.