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Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times
An anonymous reader writes "At Intel's Developer Forum in Taiwan, Intel introduced a new Non-volatile caching technology called 'Robson'." The new Robson cache technology allows computers to start up almost immediately and load programs much faster. Intel declined to comment on the specifics of how the technology works only saying that 'More information will be revealed later'.
The real reason more informatin will be revealed later is that their computers are still booting up!
This sig is neither interesting, nor humorous. Including meta-humor.
So are we going to all be expected to hibernate our Robson's now?
Why does this sound like a CowboyNeal joke to me?
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
I hope this is real and not vapor-ware. I've been waiting for instant start for 20 years.
Would we get a Robson Crusoe?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
It won't - it's just a new advanced marketecture from Intel.
Stuff that will be revealed at a later date, if market conditions warrant its release.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
The laptop with Robson also opened Adobe Reader in 0.4 seconds, while the other notebook required 5.4 seconds.
Presumably, the other notebook was running Intel's next generation CPU with sixteen cores.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If I were using Windows, I could start my computer in seconds.
And have it then crash in... seconds.
Linux User: Boo...ting? Oh...that thing I had to do when I first plugged it in. Gotcha.
On the other hand, my HDTV takes longer to turn on than the old TV, so perhaps they were expecting the times to move towards one another ;)
Just think of the performance increase from putting the page file into RAM!
(The message to be displayed when the cache gets corrupt...)
*dodges tomatoes*
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
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If you'd posted with your name, I'd now know more about you than I ever really wanted to.
That would be bad enough, but since you posted AC, I now suspect everyone...
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
My box at work is a win2k. I come in, turn it on, and then go make a liter of tea. When I come back, it's just popping up to leg me log in. I log in, then go down to the vending machine 4 floors down (walking both ways) to get a snikers or something and come back. Right about that time, it's finally doing all it's post-login stuff and I'm ready to work. That's a good 10 minutes out of my day.
I don't know what I'll do if they make the damn thing boot up immediately. My boss would probably expect me to start working too.
Not all progress is a good thing!
Getting off topic, but any recommendations for good comparisons between Linux and OS X?
Yes. Just Google "flamewar".
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
No we did not implement booting puppy linux from a flash disk. That has never been done before. Especially it is untested from a intel motherboard.
Also we never invented "On-Now" for windows 98.
-- ministry of disinformation.
When your computer crashes, we enable you to boot almost immediately. It's so fast, it's almost like no crashing at all!
With Intel Inside, you can.
Now I'm going to have to change all my programs to be much more bloated and resource-wasteful than before so that I can balance them against this new technology!