DJA wrote:
He claims to know what each option does while at the same time
wondering why it exists in the first place. Hello? At least if he
going to belittle a design, feature, or functional implementation, he
should properly explain what it does and why and then give some
non-specious examples of when that feature or option might be useful.
He is not wondering why each feature exists. He is wondering if the UI
really needs to provide the user with an explicit way to activate each
feature.
For example, he doesn't seem to understand the different sleep modes.
Otherwise why would he make technically illiterate statements like
"So, if Windows used RAM that was effectively nonvolatile, by swapping
memory out to flash drives during idle time, effectively you would be
able to remove power whenever you're in "away" mode without losing
anything"?
This gives the impression that he thinks Microsoft actually makes the
hardware Windows runs on! Besides, what does he think Suspend to drive
does?
Microsoft does not create the hardware, but it can use what is there.
Did you follow Joel's link to hybrid disk drives? In the future, disks
are going to have non-volatile memory as cache. Vista will use this and
call it ReadyDrive. Also, I believe Vista will have an option to use
any user-installed flash memory as a non-volatile cache (called ReadyBoost).
-- Rick
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