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Re: MS tricks die-hard XP users into liking Vista
Originally Posted by badass
I predict a whole load of excuses as to why this is impossible for a modern operating system to do, but all it requires is a little thinking out of the box.
Well, two things came immediately to mind - first standby (default on Vista), and second hibernation. Then again, I don't really have an issues with boot time (thanks to superfetch) except on laptops which have ****-slow hd's. Of course, resume issues can occur thanks to duff drivers - and vista has facilities to help you locate the sluggish drivers on your system. Watch the hibernation loading bar - that's a fair indicator of how long it takes the kernel to page in the saved RAM image, the rest is just waiting for drivers/services to initialise.
My last Amiga, the A4000 - with a 68060 and a Picasso took a lot longer to startup than six seconds (from hard drive). Depends what you consider the OS - kickstart was in ROM, workbench etc wasn't.
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