You might be surprised to know that the Mac fast to turn off and on,
yet it is just as fast and just as advanced as the Windows machines.
The flaw is Microsoft. My iMac runs both operating systems so I can
do most of the real work using a friendly environment and switch to
Windows only when I must. An easy solution is available.
Ed
On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
It is common knowledge that in the not so distant future hard disks
will be replaced with solid state memory, and MPP architecture will
become commonplace. No doubt computers will run thousands of times
faster than they do now, just as today's computers run anywhere from
1000 to 100,000 times faster than personal computers did circa 1980
(my estimate -- I would like to see a more authoritative estimate).
Anyway, I would like to make a prediction about these upcoming
machines. Despite the fact that they will run thousands of times
faster, I predict that it will still take two minutes to turn
Windows on. And to turn it off, for crying out loud! Why it takes so
long to terminate a program is a mystery. The disk access light
flutters and twitches, but the program gives no hint what it is up
to. By the standards of 1980 these things are supercomputers and in
two minutes you could probably enumerate every person in the U.S.
Anyway, two minutes seems to be a built-in computer constant, along
with the price of whatever computer you want to buy, which Dave
Barry defined as: "$500 more than you hoped to pay."
- Jed
