Apparently, the time a Mac takes to load depends on what it has to
load. When my iMac was new using OS10.4, it took about a minute to
load, which was immediately impressive. Now after switching to OS10.5
and adding many programs, it takes 6 minutes. As a result, I don't
start from completely off very often. However, it takes only 1.5 min.
to turn off. As for clearing memory, the Mac has the ability to
relaunch the finder which clears memory without actually turning the
system off. This takes only seconds. I'm not trying to sell Macs, but
I have used both Windows and the iMac and find the iMac to be an
amazing machine that beats Windows in every way. Unfortunately,
occasionally I need to switch to Windows to run a special program.
When in the Windows mode, the machine acts exactly like a PC.
Ed
On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:00 PM, leaking pen wrote:
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
