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Re: Presto `instant-on
« on: April 01, 2009, 12:08:57 PM »
I'm going to have to agree with bloodline on this one.  You can never be sure what's been committed to disk.  HD activity lights are not a good way to tell if it's safe to shut down.  For example, the MacBook Pro doesn't even have a HDD activity light!
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Re: Presto ‘instant-on’ operating system enters beta
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2009, 04:45:41 PM »
@ferrellsl

30 seconds seems like a long time but consider POST, hardware initialization, etc. and the actual load time is a couple of seconds.  It's still much faster than anything out there.  The iPhone/iPod touch takes over 30 seconds to boot!  
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Re: Presto ‘instant-on’ operating system enters beta
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 03:54:18 PM »
@ferrellsl

But you can't compare a simple MP3 player with something that can do much more (ie. play games, surf the internet, etc.).

Are you really saying that the instant you press the power button on your MP3 player a MP3 can be played?  Come now.  Even magic MP3 players have to load some sort of operating environment, initialize hardware, load the contents of memory card, etc.

As for the marketing.  The Presto page never says "instant on" it's the media that is calling it that. :rtfm:  
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