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- dvsbastard, on 04/23/2009, -2/+26Just don't turn your computer off... It works for me!
- Hodor, on 04/22/2009, -2/+19in my experience, a lot of the "startup time" isn't because of electronics, it's starting all the damn operating system stuff and services set to start automatically.
- murrdpirate, on 04/23/2009, -0/+12Didn't I just see this yesterday?
- DarthDubbya, on 04/23/2009, -0/+10My C64 was pretty much instant on.
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+9sucker!
i print mine out
on b&w cuz its cheaper - blackmesa, on 04/23/2009, -0/+8I succeeded in having my Windows ME laptop hibernate instead of shut down for around 2 months (of near daily use). I think I did some kind of physical hardware damage though... it was never quite the same again. For Windows ME, that's saying something. However, for all it's memory leaks, driver problems, DOS weirdness, strange crashes, bugs and bizarre UI behaviour, I kind of like Windows ME. Every day was a new adventure, a challenge. Using a computer required blood. Good times.
- shandromand, on 04/23/2009, -1/+8That's not very green of us, though, is it? :S
At least turn off your monitor(s) when you sleep... - diskoh, on 04/23/2009, -2/+8Ditto.
When I got a new, quieter laptop, I had to continue leaving my old one on anyways even though I don't use it... because I got so used to the fan sound that my ears ring without it on at night. - inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+6still no breakthrough for repeat headlines.
- Sesheron, on 04/23/2009, -0/+6Hodir, you have it wrong. This will be like hibernate, except instead of the computer "saving" its state. It will just be "back" This implies that when you press the power button. Electricity is removed from everything at once. Every chip in your computer will "freeze" with whatever it had until the power comes back.
Think of it like muscle memory. Instead of each transistor "forgetting" what it did last, it will quite literally stand still waiting for power to continue what it was doing. Except the hard drive won't have to "remind" everything it was doing last. It will just resume. I can't really think of a better way to
explain it. - inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4Nice, soon I wont have to wait for my computer to boot up to get porn.
- jodofashodo, on 04/23/2009, -1/+5This has caused some to sit down, turn on their computer, and actually finish fapping before they can even open up the porn sites....
This one's for you guys!
Sincerely, Technology - tahseenm, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4I have an instant on ;)
- Jo9100, on 04/23/2009, -0/+4I always leave it on too... Why bother?
My solution for the laptop: Always put to sleep when plugged in, or hibernation for longer periods when unplugged. - Myztry, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3For those who have only ever known Microsoft Windows, it's interesting to take a look at old magazines and get time snapshots of how things really where rather the myths that have come to persist.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/index/ - carbontwelve, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3My commador 64 used to boot up instantly. As did a myriad of other early computers I owned, its only since they have become more complex that the boot up time has become a problem.
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+3Clap on Computer
cool - linagee, on 04/23/2009, -1/+4I will summarize the article for you: Blah Blah Blah Blah, get a fast SSD and hibernate your computer for a quick boot up.
- xmBill, on 04/23/2009, -1/+3My CoCo was instant on, too. Glad to see that technology is finally catching up in the PC's. We were doing multi-tasking with windows long before Windows was out.
- Yarkz, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2Don't forget about folding@home I have my computers going 24/7 and all have that :D
- seanof, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2You'd still need a few seconds to gracefully deal with network connections and other things.
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -2/+4If that ends up being a feature on Macs, it will only add $500 to the price! Bargain.
- blackmesa, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1Believe it or not, I just came off ~5 months on 98SE. I did it because it was a crappy computer and I figured 98SE would be more "snappy" than XP.
I was wrong; all the random bluescreening and unexpected hangs kind of nuke the minor timesaves. I even had all the right drivers; finding them was INSANELY DIFFICULT. Particularly considering I was running some hardware that came out post-xp, far distant to 98.
Still, it's a trip down memory lane. I love the startup noise of 98. 95 is my favourite though...with that "GLUUUUUUUNK" sound cascading into a gentle little piece. I think Brian Eno wrote it (I know he did one of the startup sounds). - Myztry, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1If my computer could boot as fast as my 32bit pre-emptive multitasking GUI Amiga A500 then would it be a step forward. Or would it be a step back - by 21 years...
It pays to design systems from the ground up... Hell, the Amiga only had a 7Mhz processor... - inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1Yah, back in the early days of XP, I was forced in a hotel for work for about a year, and I left my PC on IDLE for an entire year.
I came back, and when I rebooted, it never quite worked the same way as I remembered it, and about 300mhz slower. :( - tommyny04, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1hell, you should go back to 98 if you're that daring
- shandromand, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1"Hodir, you have it wrong."
Someone's letting his WoW-geek show... - AbbasJin, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1^X2
I kept running my desktop pc for like 40 days 24x7 when i got my dsl for the first time. After that,, i got fedup with the downloading etc and i switched to my laptop since its way to quiter. but now my ears ring without the nice sound of the buzzing desktop psu/cpu-fan/nvidia-fan when i'm about to go to sleep. now i wake up in the middle of the night and turn my desktop pc on just for the sake of making some nice. i feel so safe then - HillBully, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1hey, my PC's cheap Asrock mobo features InstantBoot!
been using it over a year now :D - ohreilly, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1RISC OS booted in a few seconds in the 80s/90s.
- itsthehumidity, on 04/23/2009, -1/+1Summary: they got rid of the glue.
- diskoh, on 04/23/2009, -1/+1Eh, an idle laptop uses about the same amount of power as a nightlight (1-6 watts). Not that concerning.
- EvilPoliticians, on 04/25/2009, -0/+0You just dated yourself. Most online will not know what a CoCo was. I think the MS-DOS compatible 1000EX was instant on too. At least to the C: prompt.
- someone31988, on 04/23/2009, -0/+0Should've used Windows 2000.
- dext3r, on 04/23/2009, -3/+2Since no one will see this comment: I love touching little children while bathing in my own feces stew.
- shrudheuie, on 04/23/2009, -2/+1Linux did it
- shandromand, on 04/23/2009, -5/+2With a name like Hodor, can you really claim surprise?
- tommyny04, on 04/23/2009, -4/+1***** the cure for cancer, we all can't live till we're 90 god-darnit
i expect cancer to do me off by 75, if im still alive by then, i'll resort to a whole bunch of weed and booze to finish off the job - AlienMushroom, on 04/23/2009, -9/+1***** you.
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***** you. - inactive, on 04/23/2009, -12/+2your experience obviously does not include using equipment properly
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