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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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*yawn*

by ArKay on Tue 18th Oct 2005 19:38 UTC

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2005-07-13

What a timesaver... Given that I usually turn on my PC once per day which currently takes about 3 minutes until it's usable. And that you have technologies like Standby, suspend to disk.. should we really care?

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RE: *yawn*

by ma_d on Tue 18th Oct 2005 21:05 in reply to "*yawn*"

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2005-06-29

If you had a notebook, you'd care. Did you even bother to read the blurb?

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RE[2]: *yawn*

by ArKay on Wed 19th Oct 2005 08:50 in reply to "RE: *yawn*"

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2005-07-13

I actually never bother to turn off my notebook.

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