The REAL instant-on OS will be a thing of the future, because it needs to take advantage of the future SSD technology. Giving the horrifying fact that SSD's speed keeps rocketing at an insanely rate, I have no doubt it will eventually reach the speed of RAM, and when that day comes, we just use part of the SSD as RAM.
And suddenly, every OS then, will be INSTANT ON!!!! Not only that, it has a bonus called: INSTANT OFF.
Because the SSD "IS" the RAM, so the system has nothing to unload & save before power off, and it has nothing to load during boot up.
If you're confused, try ask yourself: How can you load something when it's already there?
Windows XP Embedded with RAMDrive is even faster. I have a 64MB fully functional Image that boots within 6 seconds or so, though a few tweaks are needed in order to no to initialize USB, Sound, Ethernet, Bluetooth etc.. during boot up, instead, the system show the desktop first, and do those work afterward. The down side is you cannot use USB keyboards & mice during boot up, no logon sfx, and it takes a while to initialize the NIC(about 5 - 7 seconds with DHCP off), and the boot up time, sadly, is platform sensitive, it's been tested & found only possible with nVidia Chipsets.
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really doesn't convince me. You can boot up Linux faster on the AA1 under battery power!
The REAL instant-on OS will be a thing of the future, because it needs to take advantage of the future SSD technology. Giving the horrifying fact that SSD's speed keeps rocketing at an insanely rate, I have no doubt it will eventually reach the speed of RAM, and when that day comes, we just use part of the SSD as RAM.
And suddenly, every OS then, will be INSTANT ON!!!!
Not only that, it has a bonus called: INSTANT OFF.
Because the SSD "IS" the RAM, so the system has nothing to unload & save before power off, and it has nothing to load during boot up.
If you're confused, try ask yourself: How can you load something when it's already there?
Meh, I have a fully running XP Embedded with enough functionality to run Opera with Wifi, from cold boot in 17 seconds.
I have a nLite boot thats about 30 seconds, which is only 5 more than this, and provides near full Windows functionality.
@ddd
Windows XP Embedded with RAMDrive is even faster. I have a 64MB fully functional Image that boots within 6 seconds or so, though a few tweaks are needed in order to no to initialize USB, Sound, Ethernet, Bluetooth etc.. during boot up, instead, the system show the desktop first, and do those work afterward. The down side is you cannot use USB keyboards & mice during boot up, no logon sfx, and it takes a while to initialize the NIC(about 5 - 7 seconds with DHCP off), and the boot up time, sadly, is platform sensitive, it's been tested & found only possible with nVidia Chipsets.
Why has no one mentioned that this software is SUBCRIPTION-BASED? Who in their right mind would continue paying monthly for this?