As they say in the video, 95% of business users boot their laptops for mail, calendars, contacts, internet, viewing mail attachments, and replying to mail. The system takes those features (all found in a Blackberry), and adds a big screen and keyboard. On top of that, it multiplies battery life by a factor of around 10 through its use of dedicated hardware.
By the way, where did you hear about 15-second boot time? In the video, they talked like it would be practically an always-on solution.
Now, if you want to play games, you'll need a full boot. That said, I doubt you'll see this system anytime soon in an XPS or Alienware configuration, so I'm not sure how well gaming will work on those machines anyway.
My hope for the future: take this same concept and add the capability to load extensions from the hard drive as they are necessary. For instance, if I wanted to play a Linux game, and it requires capabilities not originally loaded in the instant-on OS, those modules could be loaded at that point.
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It's an excellent step in the right direction.
As they say in the video, 95% of business users boot their laptops for mail, calendars, contacts, internet, viewing mail attachments, and replying to mail. The system takes those features (all found in a Blackberry), and adds a big screen and keyboard. On top of that, it multiplies battery life by a factor of around 10 through its use of dedicated hardware.
By the way, where did you hear about 15-second boot time? In the video, they talked like it would be practically an always-on solution.
Now, if you want to play games, you'll need a full boot. That said, I doubt you'll see this system anytime soon in an XPS or Alienware configuration, so I'm not sure how well gaming will work on those machines anyway.
My hope for the future: take this same concept and add the capability to load extensions from the hard drive as they are necessary. For instance, if I wanted to play a Linux game, and it requires capabilities not originally loaded in the instant-on OS, those modules could be loaded at that point.