[Ti] Intel cuts PC boot time

[Kynan Shook]

In my experience, Windows' standby and hibernation features are a  
poor imitation of sleep.  For my mom, when she wakes her Dell laptop,  
the screen resolution often reverts to something like 800x600 (taking  
up only a small area on the screen, it's not even full-screen like on  
a Mac).  On the other hand, show a Windows user how you can sleep  
your PowerBook, and when you wake up it's ready to go right away.  No  
silly progress bar when turning it off or on.

I've never had such a problem with a stewardess, but if you find  
another one that complains, just hand her your battery.  ;-)  As long  
as you put the battery back in within 3 or 5 minutes or so, it'll run  
fine.  Beyond that and it might not wake up.  Note that not all  
PowerBooks are capable of this; I don't believe the 12" is, nor is  
any iBook.  Also, how much memory you have (and how well the  
manufacturer adhered to the maximum power limit when in self-refresh  
for sleeping) may affect the sleeping time with no battery installed.

A little history for everybody; back with the PowerBook G3 in OS 9,  
Apple did briefly offer "Save and Sleep" and "Save and Shut  
Down" (both similar to hibernation in windows).  However, these  
didn't work perfectly, and a subsequent OS update was released to  
"fix" them by removing the features completely.  My guess is that  
they decided that sleep already kicked the pants off anything on the  
Windows side, so there wasn't much point in investing too much time  
trying to debug the new feature that wasn't as spiffy, especially  
with OS X under development.

TjL <lists at tntluoma.com> writes:
> Why does everyone always think either/or when we talk about new  
> things?
>
> XP has hibernation and sleep (if your computer hardware supports  
> them).
>
> OS X has sleep.
>
> Only fanatics would argue OS X users are better off.
>
> Hibernation works much faster than booting for my 650Mhz Pentium3 with
> 512mb RAM.  I have it set to hibernate when I close the lid of my Dell
> laptop.
>
> I had a Zealot Stewardess tell me my laptop had to be OFF not just
> asleep..she saw the light flashing.  Hibernation shuts off all the  
> lights
> and yet I can still restart where I left off.
>
> VirtualPC7 does do the equivalent of this for Windows at least, not  
> sure
> about other OSes.