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MRAM in 2004?
amberspry writes "As previously reported here and here. Wired has yet another update on MRAM here. They give hope by mid-2004 we will see devices with faster boot up times and using less power as a 'vastly accelerated timetable is being implemented.' Gotta love joint ventures."
A little more indepth view of MRAM can be read here.
Does anyone know if MRAM will be sensative to external magnets? Aka if I bump my portable mp3/ogg player into a giant fridge mag will I lost my data?
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Here's a better link for more info on MRAM. Pretty graphic of an MRAM cell.
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With power supplies averaging, oh, 300 or so watts, that can mean decent savings when you figure it running 24x7.
Arggh.. Someone else who doesn't know how a switching power supply works. 300Watts means thats the maximum amount of power it can deliver before it melts down. It doesn't mean your computer is using 300watts constantly.
And DRAM's power usage is miniscule compared to CPU or disk drive motors. But then, since the CPU is mostly idle (unless you run seti@home or something like that) and drives spin down when not in use, most of juice is being used by the CRT.
I dont know exactly what they're trying to pitch here, except something else to compete with flashram.
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I know it's a bit of a troll, but I'll bite.
Sure, the OS itself can boot up in 5 seconds. Check Linux, the kernel loads in about 2 seconds and it's ready.
The problem comes from loading all the drivers you need and configuration files... Drivers are especially bad.. It can take quite awhile to wake up a device... Generally you want to initialize all devices before user input is allowed. You want fast access to devices, right?
Really each thing individually is fast, but time adds up. The more you need to initialize, the longer it's gonna take.