Many people seem to be confusing "instant on" with "boot time". My MacBook Air wakes up instantly and can sleep for 30 days on battery. Boot time is largely irrelevant because I very rarely reboot any of my devices.
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See http://twitter.com/gaustin... for one such confused individual.
- Paul Buchheit
Boot time is only irrelevant until you have to reboot.
- Gabe
Correct. Boot time is no longer an issue.
- Louis Gray
How often are you rebooting Gabe? For me, it's rare enough that I don't even know how long it takes. Is it 5 sec, or 30 sec? I don't care. 30 hours would be a problem, but it's nowhere near that.
- Paul Buchheit
My cable box is "instant on", largely because it doesn't actually turn off. But when it crashes (or there's a power glitch), it's really annoying to have to wait several minutes before getting back to your show. How often is that? It's rare, but when it happens I certainly wish that it actually turned on instantly.
- Gabe
There's never been a short supply of confused twitterers.
- Micah
I think boot time (not wake time) is still a prevalent issue (and a holdover) for Windows users, not everyone else. I don't know why there's such a distinction between the user-bases, though: there's nothing to suggest that computers running Windows (or any computers) need to be rebooted on a regular basis, but people still do it.
- Mark Trapp
I haven't seen 'instant on' since the old Sharp Wizard PDA's. I don't consider SplashTop to be instant on either.
- Rodfather
My TV is also "instant on", but only in the "sleep" mode where it consumes 40W! Since I don't want it to waste electricity all the time I actually turn it off, meaning I have to wait 20 seconds for it to boot every time I watch TV.
- Gabe
It takes my light bulbs 30 seconds to boot.
- Brian Sullivan
Your lightbulbs clearly need to be replaced with ones running Chrome OS.
- Mark Trapp
That'd be one hawt! touch interface.
- Micah
Ironically, many of the lights in Paul's house aren't "instant on". They take long enough to turn on that you start wondering whether you pressed the right button.
- Gabe
I wish my boots were instant on. I hate having to feed the laces through the top two hooks!
- Jim #teamFFrank
Mac OS boot time and wake from sleep were a huge focus in OS X - there was a dedicated team who profiled the entire boot and wake processes, and went round each dev team making sure they were faster or deferred more things.
- Kevin Marks
That said, I really like this CR-48. Simple, instant on by your standards, and I easily get eight hours battery life.
- Nathan Snyder
Jim, did you see http://www.power-laces.com/about ?
- Kevin Marks
Replacing compact fluorescents with LEDs helps with instant-on for lights...
- Kevin Marks
Relevant: http://prog21.dadgum.com/index...
- Eric Florenzano
Windows requires lots of rebooting, and it is extremely slow to boot. I hate Windows, but I have to use it for work now.
- Robert Felty
Rob: How long does it take your computer to boot? My new Win7 laptop takes about 35 seconds from when I swipe my finger on the fingerprint reader turn it on to being logged in and ready to use. It's not exactly "instant on", but it's faster than most other computers I've used.
- Gabe
PowerLaces vid officially added to my YT favourites, Kevin.
- Micah
Worst part about Windows restore from sleep is connection to WIFI! The Mac does a fantastic job...3x faster?, and then somehow the browsers all load the page they were waiting on. Windows makes the browser show a failure page, etc.
- Michael Herf
Windows7 on my new machine boots in 45 seconds. Snow Leopard on my new machine boots in 30 seconds. Very big deal. I could prepare a cup of coffee in that 15 seconds. Or count the white hair on my head.
- İlter Kalkancı
My company still uses WinXP. They are planning on doing a rolling upgrade to Win 7 over the next 3 years. Three Years! By then there will probably be Win 8. I haven't actually measured how long it takes to boot, but there are a bunch of other things too. It has to log in to the VPN, and do a bunch of anti-virus stuff. So by the time I can open Microsoft Outlook to check my e-mail, it is 3-4 minutes easily.
- Robert Felty
Rob, you should consider yourself lucky that your company actually has plans for moving off of XP. Some of my clients only recently upgraded to XP and I don't know of any that actually has plans to move off of it.
- Gabe
Rob, I'm on XP at our company, also. I very rarely turn my computer off (yeah, I'm an environmentally incorrect monster), but IT has to run some processes once a week so whether or not I turn it off I have to reboot once a week. I have never actually timed it but I'm pretty sure it takes about five minutes.
- Laura Norvig
I keep hearing how Windows "requires" lots of rebooting...and I don't see it. I choose to boot from full power-off every morning; takes 75 seconds to full-on (with all apps, etc., operational). From sleep mode, 5 seconds. From hibernate, maybe 10. Required reboots outside of old-program installs: Zero since Windows 7 installed.
- walt crawford
Does Windows 7 not require a reboot for almost every software update? That seems like a nice improvement. I have to say that Mac 10.6 got worse with software updates. There seem to be more that require a reboot, and they don't get installed in the background anymore.
- Robert Felty
Robert: It varies. I haven't found them disruptive; once a month or so, going to sleep mode initiates patch sets, which finish installing on restart. So, in that sense, yes. Most other (newer) software, in my experience, no longer requires restarts. Then again, I don't consider 75 seconds once a day to be burdensome, and prefer to have the PC completely off overnight.
- walt crawford
don't you see some performance drop?
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