That would be a great idea. I've read about fast boot computers that would launch a minimal version of Linux for basic use while WIndows continues to launch in the background. I don't know if anyone ever got past the concept phase into a commercial product though.
You'd think that it would be easier to do something similar for the Mac, since iOS is basically a stripped down version of OS X, so you don't really need to run two different OSs. A future OS X could just have an iOS subset that always resides in memory for "instant on" use while expanding gracefully to the full OS X. Right now though, the idea seems more like a solution in search of a problem, since OS X already launches pretty quickly. Another idea I've heard bandied about that I would like much more is an iOS runtime for OS X that would let you run your iPhone/iPad apps on your mac. It seems that this would be easy to accomplish especially for laptops since they already have a multitouch trackpad and Apple already has considerable experience at this kind of thing, such as with Classic for running OS 9 apps in OS X and Rosetta for running PowerPC apps on intel. Maybe the hardware on current laptops isn't compatible enough though to do something similar for iOS. The experience might be too frustrating, since for example any app that needs orientation sensors wouldn't work very well, if at all. Maybe this is a direction that hardware for future laptops will take? On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:44 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From: mike <xha...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Apple iOS or OS X > > I could perhaps see Apple using iOS as an instant on option to check email > etc and then OS X for full duty on laptops. > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, TJPA <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > >> Not likely, though it may become available as an option. I can see >> power-mad IT types going for it as a way to totally control what is on the >> machine. IOS does not need the horsepower of a pro-line machine so I expect >> to see it on very different hardware. >> >> I am certainly impressed by the software (most of it free or a buck or two) >> that is available for iOS. My iPad looks like it is going to be a very >> productive little machine. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:19 PM, "phartz...@gmail.com" <phartz...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> A number of Apple developers think that Apple Corp. is going to >>> begin melding iOS into OS X in the very near future, eventually >>> replacing OS X with iOS in their line of laptop and desktop computers >>> for general consumer use. >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
