On 2011-03-15 11:35 , Dario Bonazza wrote:
I meant to be ironic. We all know that plain on/off switches have been available for many decades and of course manufacturers can choose from a plethora of memory devices to retain settings when the damn thing is totally off. Hence no technology to invent/develop is involved for reducing such kind of energy consumption.
it can take a while for the systems in a device to boot, which leads to customer dissatisfaction; enabling "instant boot" is more expensive because more memory and programming are needed to completely restore the state of a system than to simply restore settings
i think the figures for overall standby power consumption have a lot to do with older systems, or devices that don't benefit from standby; for systems that do benefit, standby can be engineered to take very low power, perhaps more cheaply than instant-on for complex, computer-based devices
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