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Around the Eee PC boom, the idea of a special quick-boot OS for checking email and surfing the web arose, largely thanks to a company called Device VM (better known as Splashtop). Though it’s a cool idea that has just started to take off, it’s not clear how long it will last.
When Splashtop first arrived, many OSs took a minute or more to boot up. Since then, though, Ubuntu has been steadily improving their boot times and is aiming for a 10 second bootup in 2010. Apple, who offers their customers a choice between premium hardware and crazy hardware, is coming along, too, with their upcoming release – Snow Leopard. Even Microsoft, with its notoriously bloated Windows, is working on decreasing the power required to run Windows 7.
With rapdibly plummeting boot times on normal OSs, it’s not clear that instant-on special OSs have much ground to stand on. In just a few years the difference will be 1 second to 5 seconds. Once you factor in the convienence of only having one OS, quick-boot OSs might not have long to live.
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The so-called InstantOn OSes are still not like the embedded type of devices in terms of InstantOn calculator style.
As it is, having suspend mode is pretty good esp with the longer batt life of netbooks.
The idea of one OS is not good. Competition, the “war of the OSs”, is imperative to further improve products.
it’s a new motherboard “feature”
the OS comes with the motherboard, like the bios does. In future versions i heard of plans of helping the user within this instant/first boot OS of giving you the option of downloading and installing an “alternative OS” to the hard drive (probably another linux version).
the boot time isn’t the only factor, it’s also convenient for a guest who just wants to browse the web
this gives hardware devs yet another tool against being tied too much to MS