Guest post by Nobody ever liked looking at a boot screen, especially when in a hurry for quick access to a bit of needed information. Quick-boot technology has been around for ages, it seems, going seemingly nowhere, as if taunting. However, a number of new products displayed recently at CES by companies such as Sony, Lenovo, Phoenix, and Qualcomm, gives one the idea that the quick-boot technology will soon be implemented into netbooks, and all for the better (quicker, at least).
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.
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.
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!
Well, Amiga is instant OFF atleast 😀
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.
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.
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.