Dell's Latitude On Flash Boots Laptop in Seconds

[exfileme]

Dell's new instant-on offering uses the laptop's x86 processor rather than depend on an ARM-based version.


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[wildwell]

How big a difference in battery life are we talking about here?

 

[Guest]

Instant boot? Boot the full OS once, put the computer to sleep. Waking it up is my instant boot 🙂

 

[HansVonOhain]

If this is instant boot, I am hoping it is not like Asus' ExpressGate. I am also hoping that this will not a be a limited OS for that fast boot. Also as others have mentioned, how much of a battery difference there is.

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]askme[/nom]Instant boot? Boot the full OS once, put the computer to sleep. Waking it up is my instant boot 🙂[/citation]

S3 chews a bit of power still (to ram, chipset etc to hold the contents of the ram), this sounds like a zero power off state that starts up just as quick...

 

[Guest]

Its probably another lame Linux OS that has very limited use. I have a Lenovo S10e with a similar useless product. I ended up uninstalling it because it would actually cause Windows to boot slower because it wants to boot first. I just don't see the point?

 

[littlec]

Yeah my Asus G50VT came with a similar OS called "Express Gate" it's pretty lame but if you're in a jam and just need to get on the web to read something or use IM/Skype it's pretty fast.

 

[zak_mckraken]

My Win7 desktop also boots in seconds. 45 seconds to be more precise.