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booting a mame cab really fast....
Abomination:
Toshiba announced a solid state hard disk for thier notebooks coming out in the next month or so, could use one of those...
But I think the fastest booting time possible would be with a raptor raid0, should be faster even than this wierd solid state pci thing.
NiN^_^NiN:
you can just use hibernation or standby :p
Or u could go to the trouble of using EFW from XP Embedded so everytime u turn the PC on it loads up a hibernation file which opens up at the frontend screen.
u can just turn it off and it reloads the same image over and over again so u don't have to worry about any memory leaks if there were any from playing a game that wa big.
Lilwolf:
yeah, I see the real advantage is persistent memory. But heck, if they added a +5volt power supply and not got power through the PCI slot it would be a LOT better in my opinion. Then with a batter backup, you really have a good solution... And then have ghost running on a harddrive that would restore it if empty. Now that might be useful.
But saving 4 seconds doesn't seem worth it. But I bet those number really climb if you have a 'normal' system setup. Or if your running 98
JoeB:
flash memory is much slower than HD. This can be seen by the slower performance of devices like the iPOD nano and shuffle when compared to the regular HD based player.
As far as hibernation goes, the more RAM you have, the slower the boot up is (since it needs to copy the RAM image from the HD). I have a 2.4Ghz AMD CPU in my machine, and it boots in ~30 seconds. What's the big deal? Even if it takes 2 minutes.. click the button, got get a beer.. by the time you're ready to play, the system will be waiting for you.
;D
whammoed:
--- Quote from: JoeB on October 04, 2005, 09:57:04 am ---flash memory is much slower than HD.
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