Comments on: Two “quick start” netbook operating systems – Video

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:18:34 +0000

My Lenovo S10 (running Linux) resumes from suspend in a couple of seconds – so I won't be using this!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:18:34 +0000

My Lenovo S10 (running Linux) resumes from suspend in a couple of seconds – so I won't be using this!

By: Stevjosco

Stevjosco — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:31:15 +0000

Hi Brad,
Have you seen anything at CES about gOS Cloud? It's supposed to boot up in about 5 seconds. gOS showed a demo on a Gigabyte Convertible Netbook back in November and said they'd release it at CES but I haven't seen anything about anywhere, except gOS's web site.

Steve

By: Mikez

Mikez — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:36:22 +0000

You can get it “free of annual fee” if you get the coin collector
attachment – just put in a nickel each time you boot the machine.
B.G. will stop by once a month and collect the change.
- – - -
Makes almost as much sense as charging both parties to a
cell-phone to cell-phone telephone call 'air time charges' -?-?-

By: Ian H.

Ian H. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:02:00 +0000

While the idea of a quick-start operating system is interesting, what I’d like to see is something that starts up quickly with the option of booting a full-on operating system in the background. Then, whenever you needed to do something more than what the instant-on desktop was capable of, you wouldn’t have to reboot into your main OS, just switch over. Or maybe I’m just impatient…

By: Ducky

Ducky — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:40:17 +0000

Why would anyone pay $40 or $60 ANNUALLY to use HyperSpace? What, we're talking about software rental or somethin'?

By: Mikez

Mikez — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:27:19 +0000

PC-DOS?
It is small (comparatively) – boots fast – runs keyboard/mouse/display – -
Oh, wait, somebody already produced a product like that, by that name.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:23:22 +0000

Although I'm not a big fan of Acer's version of Linpus Lite, I have to admit the boot into a full linux distribution is quite impressive: ~15sec. That defeats the purpose of a ~10 second “instant-on”..

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:07:00 +0000

You can do exactly that with HyperSpace — but you need the more
expensive version which apparently won’t run properly on slower
machines with Intel Atom processors.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:02:00 +0000

My NC10 coming back from Hibernate is already faster than that Lenovo S10 running Hyperspace.

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By: MonkeyKing1969

MonkeyKing1969 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:16:00 +0000

I guess I’m old because I find my Sammy NC10 starting up in XP fast enough for me…it takes like 25 seconds. I’m not sure being ready in 1/3 the time just to web browse is worth $40. For $40 I’d rather have even faster start times, like 5 seconds.

Here is my question is there a program where it starts fast so you could browse but then would load the full OS in the background….that’s what people want: Start now get full features come up in the background. Nobody wants to switch modes, they would accept switching, but why want that.

By: Mikez

Mikez — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:54:00 +0000

A good point Brad, more people should keep it in mind -
A PDA (or similar) is more properly described as ‘suspended to memory’ -
Comparing ‘wake time’ to ‘boot time’ is obscuring the issues.

My desktop’s ‘wake time’ is faster than the monitor can get its
back lights running. It only takes a machine specific kernel build.
Now if some fool wants to pay me $60 a year for it. . .

By: Cold

Cold — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:51:00 +0000

does it work in another netbook? or just lenovo?