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- PleaseJustDie, on 05/14/2008, -4/+43Personally I'd be much more pleased if I could run this While my OS of choice was booting. Then once my OS is loaded and ready maybe have some indicator letting me know so I can shut down the Splashtop and it'll go straight to the login screen for windows or linux
- purelithium, on 05/14/2008, -4/+29Why doesn't my eee PC have this? I'm intrigued...
- netneutrality, on 05/14/2008, -3/+27If this concept becomes popular, Microsoft will suddenly announce they're collaborating with motherboard manufacturers to offer something exactly like this, and they will make them all sign vendor lock-in agreements, and act like they came up with the idea in the first place.
- moo113, on 05/14/2008, -2/+22Hey if it comes to the P5K-Deluxe, I'm down. Remember reading about it awhile back, seems very cool.
- bratterscain, on 05/14/2008, -1/+21I assume so. Once it gets more popular, I'm sure there will be many user mods out there. I think it has potential. Instead of booting a cd or rescue disk when my OS takes a squat, I'll always have backup access to the net to google the problem do a quick internet search with my computer off. From what I've read, it's basically an OS on a small chip similar to a BIOS.
- dezertrat, on 05/14/2008, -0/+17Turn the computer on ??
- styx31989, on 05/14/2008, -2/+19http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5218/1208302289 ...
- Olfster, on 05/14/2008, -1/+14Tell us something we don't know. You have described the MS business model to a T. Good job.
- DteK, on 05/15/2008, -0/+12"Later Splashtop will be featured on all the company’s motherboards, over a million units a month."
Nice move Asus. - Burn, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13Now THAT would be a 'killer feature'!
- jefuchs, on 05/14/2008, -2/+12I almost bought one of those this year. I was willing to pay the money, but the MB only used DDR3 memory, which is prohibitively expensive. Hope that changes.
- leerayIG88, on 05/14/2008, -2/+13What kind of a linux desktop? Can you change it?
- Twee, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8They can't alter the contents of the ROM. The thing loads up into RAM so every time you boot up its a fresh OS. You'd have to save any files created with it to a USB thumb drive or upload them online.
- mark076h, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9yeah it is pretty cool, do you even know what it is?
- ers35, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9Does your computer boot that slowly?
- matt.rubin, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8this is good when windows isn't booting you can research your problem and you don't have to go to the car to whip out your notebook
- ohplease, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7
Imagine your computer doesn't boot and you need to access some critical file on your CD rom, or look up an error message, or download a driver. Doesn't sound so ***** now does it son - synystar, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7But the idea here is that if you just need quick access to browse the web, run internet apps, and check your e-mail you don't have to wait for the OS to load. It saves power and gives you instant access. If you need access to your hard drive you just click the button to load your main OS. It's not meant to replace it. Yet.
- mossblaser, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8That's when the real problem occurs: you have to pay Microsoft for the privileged of having a motherboard. Now if that wouldn't be a monopoly then tell me what would?
- nitroburn, on 05/15/2008, -2/+10Thanks to those who dugg me down, but I own both an 8G EEE PC and a motherboard with the SplashTop interface and like I said, the EEE already boots 3x as fast as a regular laptop/desktop and it is very true Asus has avoided any huge price increases on the EEE PC (Why do you think the XP and Linux versions of the new model are the same price with different hardware configurations... the low price point is VERY important to Asus.)
- shanesemler, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6You haven't actually read the article, have you?
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6This is nice, especially for a home computer you can just reboot and open up splashtop so if anyone else needs to use it they wont damage your os, they will be sandboxed
- linuxpenguin, on 05/14/2008, -3/+9People dugg it.
- Theli, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6I think this makes more sense on low-cost systems designed for grandma who wants her computer to work like her TV, than on high-end gaming PC's.
- ohplease, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7You want two OS's in ring 0?
- bumcheekcity, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7Wow. This looks like a really good idea. If only you could boot into the Linux Distro and then interact with the hard drive, it'd be brilliant. But this is great. I'm going to buy an Asus board this summer.
- daftman, on 05/14/2008, -2/+10Pointless. You don't spend that much time waiting for your OS loading anyway. 1 minute max?
I think this is great for thin client in public places such as ATM, etc. There will be no virus as everything will run through ram and nothing is persistent once the computer is turned off.
Or you can use it as a feature to fix your broken OS while your CD/DVD drive is also broken. Yes that's rare but considering EEE PC and Mac Air don't ship with a CD/DVD drive it would be important. - ubuwalker31, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7From start to finish, my Asus Eee PC takes 20 seconds. My Ubuntu desktop takes 30-40 seconds and then another 20 seconds to get past the login. My home XP desktop takes around 2 and a half minutes. My XP workstation takes around 7 minutes with all of the cruft on there from the company that needs to load. An instantaneous boot into a browser would be a lifesaver when I am rushing out of the house and realize that I forgot to find out the address of the doctor's office/restaurant/other place I am rushing to, to plug into the gps.
- mark076h, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5it interfaces with some flash memory so you can save things
- HappyTux, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5No it would be called an EPROM chip ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM - xerox, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6or you could RTFA and see that they want to have this for.
Despite the obvious convenience factors, Asus is most interested in Splashtop for its energy efficiency. Using Splashtop the computer is still powered on (pretty much like normal, less the disk activity) but the key here is that you don’t have to leave your computer on all the time. If you just want to check your email or go to a web site, you can simply leave the system off and boot into Splashtop, which takes just a few seconds. - netneutrality, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6Also, if you enable hibernation, then hibernating and unhibernating is a WHOLE LOT QUICKER than a startup or shutdown.
- GalacticXenu, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Hey Einstein, ever hear about a flash drive?
- Theli, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5"...and then another 20 seconds to get past the login."
You must use a very long password. :-) - mem2, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6sigh, its become my principle to block people who post unrelated crap just for "first post"..............bye kcirt
- TheWindBlows, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7Linux Has begun its take over.
- polywaffle, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4even if virus writers did write to the chip that contains splash top, how does that affect the bios? your computer wouldnt be 'owned' till you booted into splashtop. Really, they would have to write a virus into the bios, which makes it no different to any other motherboard when it comes to bios viruses.
- ileftfark, on 05/14/2008, -2/+6I watched a video about M-RAM and how it would soon change our world here: 1994
- paulsmith288, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4EU would have a field day. US Dept of Justice wouldn't batter an eyelid.
- discoloda, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6You, my friend, just described a thin client. and sounds usefull. All this needs is a compiler and 3d acceleration and i could do game development. checkout my code, do some tweaks, compile and test, commit the changes!
- Theli, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Here's a video of the EEE-PC running Splashtop. It apparently boots very quickly.
http://internetbestsecrets.blogspot.com/2008/01/sp ... - nitroburn, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5Never catch on? I have this feature in 2 laptops and a desktop at the moment. Apparently it has caught on to someone. (no matter how useless it is)
- DestroyFascism, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Prepare to be dis-assimilated....
- TheZorch, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6This is going to really catch on quickly. Why wait until you are old and gray for Windows to boot in order to look up an address on Google Maps when you can turn on your PC and instantly be able to look it up online without waiting? It also helps save energy so its good for the environment because you don't have to leave your desktop and/or laptop on all the time. By the end of the year expect to see this offered by HP and Dell.
- Twee, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6What ads? I use AdBlock Plus with Firefox so web ads are a thing of the past.
- badassninja, on 05/15/2008, -3/+8TO bad windows could never boot in 2 secs ever. Open source is to powerful, it is too unlimited for Microsoft to compete with in the end.
- bratterscain, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4If it allows web access, I would hope not.
- afx1, on 05/14/2008, -2/+5i agree with your bacon comment and i need to add that they should work to get laptop manufacturers on board for this too
- mark076h, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3also these will probably be great for distributed computing farms, like folding@home etc
- Wolfspirittt, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3exactly.. took the words right out of my mouth. I read his comment and thought.. "Does your OS really take THAT long to boot!?" Even if you already had Linux and had tons of services to load I think that it's maybe a couple of minutes tops and that's pushing it.
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