1GB I-RAM
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hey thats not bad. esp. compared to linux. takes forever.. Now I wonder if vista is any faster.. i would imagine not. (Thats one thing about linux - when a new version comes out the system requirements dont go up much. I like that.) 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
Joshua Nussbaum wrote:
hey thats not bad. esp. compared to linux. takes forever..
And that was back in the day, on old computers when 5400 RPM considered fast. And unlike XP, they didn't just dump everything into RAM and go from there, you didn't need 256MB for the BeOS to be usable. I still have my BeOS 4.5 CD lying around somewhere. I bet I can get it to boot on a VM quickly too.
Joshua Nussbaum wrote:
(Thats one thing about linux - when a new version comes out the system requirements dont go up much. I like that.)
Yup. Jeremy Falcon
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That's impressive. But yeah, i'm with Jeremy on this one - it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use. We should at least see cold boot time equal to the time it takes to resume from hibernate.
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Shog9 wrote:
it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use.
Man, it'll be cool to think of where computers will head when the HDD is finally phased out. Of course, PCs will still be using floppy disks. :) Jeremy Falcon
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That's impressive. But yeah, i'm with Jeremy on this one - it'd be a whole lot more impressive if MS could put these blazingly fast hard drives we have today to some good use. We should at least see cold boot time equal to the time it takes to resume from hibernate.
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Vista should be better about this.
Then there's power management. System power management queries between system drivers and the OS have gotten a major overhaul, so it should be easier for hardware vendors to make their devices work in low-power environments and seamlessly work with power-saving features like Hibernation and Sleep Mode. "What is Sleep Mode?" you ask? On desktop systems, turning off the power will, by default, put your computer in Sleep Mode, where all the data currently in use is saved to both RAM and the hard drive, and then turns everything off except for a few key components (CPU, RAM, a few chipset features). Move the mouse or press a key and the computer "boots" in a few seconds. In reality, your computer never turned off, it just went into a super-low-power mode. On laptops, Sleep Mode works much the same way when you hit the power button or close the lid, except it doesn't take the time to double-save everything to a hard disk. Instead, it monitors battery life in the ultra-low-power Sleep Mode and, when the battery gets low, transfers the RAM contents to the hard disk. It's like Hibernate mode, only faster.
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Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
I do not think that is using a 1GB I-RAM, that text on the site reads "GigaByte I-RAM", but GigaByte is the name of the company that makes the I-RAM board. FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage... There were a few articles posted on tech sites (like Anandtech, etc.) when this thing first came out. Peace! -=- James
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I do not think that is using a 1GB I-RAM, that text on the site reads "GigaByte I-RAM", but GigaByte is the name of the company that makes the I-RAM board. FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage... There were a few articles posted on tech sites (like Anandtech, etc.) when this thing first came out. Peace! -=- James
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DeleteFXPFiles & CheckFavorites (Please rate this post!)James R. Twine wrote:
FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage...
Yes, It has 4 DDR1 dimm slots and supports up to a 1GB unbuffered dimm per slot. John
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Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
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Nearly instantaneous. I mean it probably took 1 second[update]Alright 4 seconds[/update] from when the WinXP boot screen appeared. (Which is really all that counts. Everything before that is hardware initialization and BIOS bootup.
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u dont even see the progress bar move. 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
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I do not think that is using a 1GB I-RAM, that text on the site reads "GigaByte I-RAM", but GigaByte is the name of the company that makes the I-RAM board. FWIW - last I knew, the I-RAM board only supported 4GB of storage... There were a few articles posted on tech sites (like Anandtech, etc.) when this thing first came out. Peace! -=- James
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DeleteFXPFiles & CheckFavorites (Please rate this post!)u are correct. i did not fully understand I-RAM ;) 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
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u dont even see the progress bar move. 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
that's the same behavior exhibited by my 256M Pentium-3
It just stays there, without moving, for one minute? ;P -- LuisR
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
that's the same behavior exhibited by my 256M Pentium-3
It just stays there, without moving, for one minute? ;P -- LuisR
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Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
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Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
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Windows XP Startup time with 1GB I-RAM[^] pretty damn fast 60% of statistics are made up on the spot
Cool. It could BSOD, reboot, submit the error report and install the update before you've even noticed that your Word document had disapeared.
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Nearly instantaneous. I mean it probably took 1 second[update]Alright 4 seconds[/update] from when the WinXP boot screen appeared. (Which is really all that counts. Everything before that is hardware initialization and BIOS bootup.
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David Stone wrote:
Everything before that is hardware initialization and BIOS bootup
It is already hard enough to hit the timely F2 or F8 keys when your computer starts - now we'll need half a dozen reboots before we'll hit it!
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Cool. It could BSOD, reboot, submit the error report and install the update before you've even noticed that your Word document had disapeared.
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