computers


That's the new wish of Bill Gates. His vision of future does not match with the current huge boot-time of computers. He's not totally wrong.
On another part, we now have FLASH memories at lower price. And a flash memory, that can store data permanently, as hard disks do. But here, data are available immediately, as soon as powered : no engine warm-up !

Tac, Intel presents the Robson technology : a series of mobile platforms using this technology and others to speed up the boot-time of the PC and of the applications. Another advantage : it increases the autonomy of the battery.
The PC boots on a non-volatile flash memory (NAND).

During an Intel's show, the laptop "Robson certified" started immediately !
Adobe Reader started in 0.4 seconds and Quick Time in 2.9 seconds.

cubic.com announces that Samsung and Microsoft will present, at the end of this month, a finale version of an hybrid hard disk that also speed up the boot-time of computers.

source : CDRinfo, october 2005
for those which do not know : FLASH memory, a PC that boots, NAND

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