I long for a decent OS.

[Crisisdog]

downward_s wrote:

The act of turning on the PC can sometimes take longer than the work I want to do. By the time I've got a blinking cursor, I've forgotten half of the inspiration.

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I long for an OS that can boot up instantly, like switching on a TV or turning on a light.

My PowerMac G5 boots up just as quick as my Amiga 3000, about 15 seconds.  Even faster when waking up from "deep sleep".  And my XP x64 system isn't too bad either, about 30 seconds.

I enjoy the quickness of my home PCs compared to the 2000+ machines that I have to support on a daily basis with my job.  I'd say the average load time for any desktop PC in my company is about four minutes.  Laptops are worse, nearly doubling that time.

Beware of the future as we become more reliant on high end technology.  HD DVD players are basically fancy media computers now, and actually do take 20 to 60 seconds to "boot" up before playing a movie.  I can't wait until computers do become integrated into stoves and microwaves, it may very well take half a minute to boot your kitchen to cook your meal before you know it.

 :-D

[Crisisdog]

Tomas wrote:

What is your definition of booting? XP boots to the login screen pretty fast on a modern pc, but the sad part is that it still takes twice that time before it let you run anything due to the fact that it is still loading stuff in the background. So the fast boot time of XP is mainly just an illusion in my opinion.

With a dual core processor and RAID, I'm talking 30 seconds from power up to Explorer desktop icons appearing.  Granted the PC then accesses the Internet right thereafter for virus definition updates, but I have no problem launching up Media Player or or any Office application during that time.