really? i havent used the new ones, but a performa, mac II, and power pc mac all took longer to boot up than comparable pc's that i owned at the same time.
(and double checking with a friend with a g5, it takes 4 minutes, 25 seconds to load. My work comp, loaded with software, running xp sp 2 with a 2.0 ghz processor and 1.5 gigs of ram, takes 2 minutes, 15 seconds, from power on to desktop. ) On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
