On Mar 6, 3:22 pm, "Ville M. Vainio" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think computers will evolve to the direction of mobile phones.

Thanks for these comments.

> memory can easily be kept alive with very little power, and flash hard
> drives don't need to be "spinned" up when the machine is activated
> again. A phone can operate so that there is an OS kernel running all
> the time (even when the machine is "off"). If you turn off all the
> wildly polling processes, the machine needs to wake up quite rarely -
> this consumes very little power when it's not needed.'

Yes.  This was my general thought.

Googling "boot times" brings up some interesting discussions.  Such
as:

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22671/1154/

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/29/boot-performance.aspx

Edward
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