Comments on: Tech to boot your computer faster

By: Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:44:23 +0000

Lev -

I *absolutely* agree.

By: Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:43:48 +0000

@David B -

Said MacBook boots in less than 30 seconds. My old XP Toshibas boot in less than a minute. Vista’s speedy 2-3 minute boot time is one reason I have a Mac.

By: Michael W. Jones

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:42:07 +0000

Ken – I find myself more and more just closing the lif on my MacBook Pro, exactly as you suggest!

By: Lev

Lev — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:49:36 +0000

Bad idea connecting to the Internet before firewall and ant-virus…. applications are loaded and running.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:32:11 +0000

Agree with Ken. And add this is just one more way for something to not work. What’s wrong with “sleep” and “hibernate” that we have already?

Besides, if your computer won’t boot in the time it takes to shower, what are you running? Win95 on a 20MHz 386? Sheesh, even at its worst my Vista Ultimate box is up and running from cold start in under 2 minutes.

More stupid tech that we don’t need. Like Asus InstantMusic that would play audio cd’s without the pc having to boot up an os. Useful for maybe 1 in a thousand people.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:25:13 +0000

Great new innovation called the “sleep mode” is what works for me.

Bloating more BIOS code and increasing the number of possibilities for failure to have a quicker boot is a bit stupid IMHO.