EDanaII wrote:
Yes. Why not?
Because, many's the time, after putting my machine in sleep or suspend that I couldn't get it too wake up. The end result: powering up anyway.
You'll forgive some of us if we don't trust that particular function in so called modern PCs. :-)
Ed.
Blame ACPI, not the OS. It's a horrible, bloated specification.
Suspend may or may not work day in day out, dependent on both your OS and your hardware. Neither Linux nor Windows does a good job accommodating all hardware in my experience.
I generally leave my desktop on. It boots XP pretty fast though. Unnecessary startup services / programs are a huge percentage of startup time. BIOS and ACPI could be refined I suppose, but I think that's wishful thinking. You'd get better results endeavoring to clean up your XP/Linux and using suspend/resume if possible.
On the PC as far as word processors, I like AbiWord, it starts up really fast. OpenOffice takes forever, and MS Word, while it starts fast, costs $349USD.
