Technology review published an article on a technology that will get new PC’s booting to a useable state in a few seconds as opposed to the couple of minutes that it currently takes – albeit with an operating system parallel to Windows.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20072/?a=f
This has been a real pain for me, as I am in the market for a new laptop, and a quicker start up was high on my wish list. I don’t mind ditching Windows for a different OS either, having heard good things about the alternatives. However, when I did some scouting around on the net, the boot times for OSX and Linux weren’t much better. Sure you can spend ages tweaking everything to get a quicker start up, but I suffer from the classic modern ailment – being time poor. In other words, screw that. I can’t believe that somehow with all the advances in computing power, we have communally accepted our fate and have to suffer through twiddling our thumbs while waiting for the PC to start.
I want to be up and running now. And I don’t want to hear the line about the Hibernate settings. I turn my TV off. I want to do the same with my laptop, not switch it to some sort of low power setting. If anyone has a silver bullet out there for XP or another OS, I would love to hear about it.