Hmm, no! I think you are mixing things up with the suspend to disk mode that some laptops use, which allows you to put your Windows OS "to sleep", then resume from that state after re-powering on. In that case the whole "memory image" of the running Windows OS, plus the state of all the peripherals and video memory is saved to disk, then the system is either powered off, or turned into a low power mode. so the peripherals (by peripherals I mean internal components like the DMA engine, WiFi Adapter, Soundcard, and other system components) keep their working state, and do not have to be initialized again when the main power returns. In the low power mode however your battery will drain in a few days, and even quicker when the main RAM contents is also kept. However, If instead the power is fully turned off, RAM contents are lost, and all the internal (register and internal RAM based firmware) states of the peripheral chips too, so after the re- boot Windows need to read a massive file from hard-disk with the contents of the RAM, all the peripheral states and firmware, Video RAM content etc etc. Then it restores the peripherals to their original state and tries to continue as if nothing has happened. Its quicker than completely booting again, but reading the large disk file takes time (and before the hard-disk is ready for work, it needs to "spin- up", and return to working order which alone can take 5 to 10 seconds), then initialize all the peripherals to their original state again, all this takes much more time than "booting" Cloud. Also, a complex OS like windows must be restarted periodically, or it will turn sluggish due to "memory losses and fragmentation" and other problems, although XP is better than older Windows versions in this respect, it is still advisable to reboot from time to time.
Because gOS cloud is part of the BIOS it can allow the main Operating System (either Windows, or another OS, like gOS 3 gadgets Linux) to continue booting in the background. When the OS is ready for use, an icon in the browser start page turns green, and you can click on it to switch to the Main OS. And from the main OS you can also return to Cloud (as if you are shutting down Windows). It takes just as long for the main OS to load as normal, but in the meantime you can browse the internet, check your e-mail etc. Or if you just want to do a quick task that can be done in Cloud you can turn off the system without actually running the Main OS, and tuning of cloud is instantaneous. There is no "shutdown procedure", as in Windows. On 16 dec, 17:52, klimpan <[email protected]> wrote: > But isn't gOS cloud suppose to have a feature that allow you to boot > into windows without restarting the computer and loading the bios? > Think I've heard that somewhere. In that case the whole bios is > already loaded, the harddrives should already been checked and all > that. Right? > > On 16 Dec, 14:20, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting, thanks for explaining that! > > On Dec 16, 12:19 am, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's not a question of being "locked away", its a question of how it > > > works. It works because its implemented as an extension of the BIOS, > > > contained in a flash ROM, out of which it runs. It does not even have > > > to wait for the harddisk to spin up (which can take several seconds), > > > let alone does it need to load itself into memory. Also it does not > > > have to do extensive device detection, because it is written for ONE > > > specific hardware platform, it only needs to check the RAM, then turn > > > on the video card, while it runs directly from FLASH. That is the only > > > way to bring the "boot time" into the 6 to 8 seconds realm (currently > > > the unoptimized version boots in about double that, but I think it > > > can boot much faster than even that) I suspect it will be when > > > finished, as Splashtop also takes about that amount of time to run > > > too. If there will be a version that runs from say a small disk > > > partition, the boot time will be much longer, as spinning up a hard- > > > disk and loading the 500MB or so that is needed into RAM will take > > > longer, but maybe with a solid state based device like a netbook it > > > will be possible to boot almost as fast. > > > > On 16 dec, 04:26, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Completely agree. I know splashtop says it boots within 10 seconds or > > > > so. Gos will take longer as far as I can tell. > > > > > I am so excited for it to come out!! > > > > > On Dec 15, 9:41 pm, Genjinaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I hope not, that would suck. > > > > > > Its bad enough others (Express Gate, Splashtop, etc.) are locked away > > > > > like that. > > > > > > On Dec 15, 9:10 pm, thegreyspot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > So does that mean that it wont be available for most computer? Or > > > > > > just > > > > > > for certain motherboards? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
