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Re: Do you need or even want an instant-on netbook?

ibcnunabit — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:53:46 -0000

I think a lot of people just can't appreciate instant-on until they've had it and used it awhile. It makes an incredible difference. It becomes as convenient as opening and closing a book.

I have one of the old Psion Netbooks, and let me tell you--it's wonderful. You can be working on something right up until you have to get up and leave--no need to wait for things to save and close and shut down. It's more convenient to move around because you can just shut it, carry it over, and open it back up--no inconvenient wait to reload and navigate back to where you were. With instant-on the way the Psion did it, you are able to pick up EXACTLY right where you left something, too--no need to close and re-open. Once you have it, you'll never want to do without it.

I just bought a Toshiba NB205, which I love--but if it had instant-on, I'd be ecstatic.

Re: Do you need or even want an instant-on netbook?

Jonathan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:14:52 -0000

I can boot from off into Windows 7, XP and OSX in under a minute ... not bad at all for a netbook! I usually drop to standby and resume is less than 30 seconds - reconnected and working. I tend to only reboot when asked to or if I want to use another OS on the drive.

Re: Do you need or even want an instant-on netbook?

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:57:32 -0000

Instant on is killer for me.
Just coming up of hibernation takes about half a minute at best.
I reboot about once a week because otherwise my laptop becomes to sluggish for me, and then the ordeal takes a few minutes until you can start reading emails (too much applications need to start on boot time).
Give me instant on, but don't sacrifice the OS's features for that.