http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/ Engadget Comments for ASUS' Express Gate 2.0 instant-on OS demoed on video http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/
I do... though not on my portable. My desktop motherboard is an ASUS and has ExpressGate on an embedded 2GB flash drive. I boot it and leave it when we have parties at the house so my drunk friends can't mess with my settings (a favorite party game among a few of us).]]>Mar 19th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/I've only seen stuff about desktops with instant on OS so far and have been like why. But I think a laptop with it makes more sense. If you only need to check something quick it'd turn on fast and I'd wager it'd use less battery power perhaps.]]>Mar 20th 2010 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/
I use my Express Gate AND I keep a USB Flash device loaded with Puppy Linux, because sometimes you need a different OS to accomplish something, and if Windows ever craps out on me and won't let me boot up, I can still get online, do all my basic stuff, and web surf to find out how to fix the problem in Windows (happened once, with Vista. So far Windows 7 has been rock-solid, though).

I had to switch to a Linux distro to install Dingux to my Dingoo A-320, and it has come in handy to tweak my NAS when Windows is being all weird with permissions.

And of course, it's FAST and doesn't use many resources, so if my computer's off and I need to web surf NOW for some reason, I can boot into Express Gate and be online in under a minute. ]]>Mar 20th 2010 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/When using a new ISP the automatic config CD they provided deleted the windows WIFI drivers on my laptop. OFC i could only figure this out later. I could not get the wifi on at all and the hardware switch did nothing. So I thought lets bootup in express gate and see what happens. I was able to turn the wifi on and off through software and then when I booted up in windows the drivers reinstalled automatically. I was very thankful to have an alternative OS that time.]]>Mar 20th 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/No, theres no reason to use them. Sure they boot up fast but they take ages to do anything else. Kinda counter productive if you ask me :d]]>Mar 20th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/
Instead of trimming down the boot-time, wich is the most important feature for an 'instant on' OS, they give you some fancy (but not really smooth and/or usefull) 3D eye-candy.. sigh...]]>Mar 19th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/That's incorrect. The express gate that I have already supports flash.]]>Mar 20th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/
ASUS is pretty good about supporting their hardware. They were on the ball with Windows 7 software and drivers for their entire line when Windows 7 was officially released. So far, I've been pretty happy with ASUS as a company.

I'd bet that it will be a free upgrade for anyone who owns an ASUS computer. ]]>Mar 20th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 19th 2010 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 20th 2010 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/push the POWER, walk around your house and BANG, your good to go.


seriously, if you can't wait 2 minutes there are other issues you need to get sorted first.]]>Mar 20th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Mar 20th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/
Worst of all, it needs actual disk space. If it were all say, in the firmware, well then it could be used sans-HD in case of corruption, etc. But that's not the case. Sure, it may be of use at some point, some day (as mentioned, Windoze not working right), but this in no way justifies an otherwise useless "feature", especially when just installing a regular Linux partition on the HD would do the same thing, or having an emergency boot flash drive or SD card. It just doesn't make sense.

In my case that "lean OS" *is* my primary OS, as I use Xubuntu, so I find it even more insignificant given that I don't have to deal with the likes of Windoze in the first place.]]>Mar 21st 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/
Am I missing something?]]>Mar 21st 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/asus-express-gate-2-0-instant-on-os-demoed-on-video/Not really, but there was supposed to be this thing called MRAM and also a phase change version of it too. This would be non-volitlie RAM used as your main system memory that would replace the current style of RAM in computers. Then it really would be instant on as the memory would be how you left it when you turned it off. It has been about 3-5 years since these were announced and I haven't seen anything for awhile now, so it is apparently another one of those technology things that never quite gets done.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 12:58PM