PCs will boot up in seconds...

[amphis software]

At last... PCs will boot up in seconds....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

Tom

 

[JElder]

This refers to the hardware POST boot. My current PC only takes about 15 seconds to get through POST, so there is not that much of an advantage.

Most of the time is taken waiting for Windows to boot - only way round this is to use a much smaller OS, like one of the mini embedded linux versions.

I will help with recognising new hardware in BIOS, before the OS is loaded, and it is pretty out of date.

 

[Mpg]

My pc cold boots in under 30 secs. win7 and an SSD.

Remember the old days of waiting 20 mins for a game to load on a C64 and if it didnt load you would just reboot and try again.

How the world moves on hey.

 

[sjdev]

Nice to see! Macs have had this for a while now, it really is quick

 

[akirk]

I just leave my computer on instant access!

Alasdair

 

[360interactive]

Remember the old days of waiting 20 mins for a game to load on a C64 and if it didnt load you would just reboot and try again.

Oh the memories!

I remember sitting patiently waiting for dizzy the egg (??) to load up, only to have to reboot it and start again when it failed at the last hurdle.

 

[Mikesp]

Nice to see! Macs have had this for a while now, it really is quick

word, funny how people think it's all new.

 

[Steve202]

The title reminded me of a computer I had that booted within a couple of seconds and loading programs that would normally take a few seconds was loading within less than half a second. I really couldn't explain it. Tried to find out what was going on but when a restarted the machine is behaved itself.

 

[qwerkay]

This refers to the hardware POST boot. My current PC only takes about 15 seconds to get through POST, so there is not that much of an advantage.

Most of the time is taken waiting for Windows to boot - only way round this is to use a much smaller OS, like one of the mini embedded linux versions.

I will help with recognising new hardware in BIOS, before the OS is loaded, and it is pretty out of date.

SEO?..............

 

[pchealer]

Im sure with SSD's these new machines will fly with Google Chrome OS Boot times apparently at 7 seconds I know what ill be using when it comes out.

 

[bdw]

I just leave my computer on instant access!

I do too but it's not very green. :redface:

.

 

[lucyrussell]

goodbye grandpa BIOS we will miss you

 

[James1980]

My Acorn Archimedes A5000 went from "off" to "usable desktop" in about 10 seconds...



James

 

[antropy]

dizzy the egg (??)

Amazing stuff on the ZX Spectrum! Was it Treasure Island Dizzy and Fantasy World Dizzy?

 

[Medicol]

I used to love those adventure games.

go north

examine rock

Go south

Etc


They used to help with memory as you couldn't save them and had to start from the begining each time

 

[garyk]

My pc cold boots in under 30 secs. win7 and an SSD.

Remember the old days of waiting 20 mins for a game to load on a C64 and if it didnt load you would just reboot and try again.

How the world moves on hey.

Ahh yes! I remember often waiting for manic mine on the C64 which took about 15 mins to load, dunno why because it never took that long on the spectrum.

Gary

 

[antropy]

Ahh yes! I remember often waiting for manic mine on the C64 which took about 15 mins to load, dunno why because it never took that long on the spectrum.

That's because the Spectrum was better! lol