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Just ditch Windows.

2008-08-28T02:13:47.041-04:00

Just ditch Windows.

Toshiba dipped their toes in this around 3 or 4 ye...

2008-08-27T10:02:49.998-04:00

Toshiba dipped their toes in this around 3 or 4 years ago with their high-end Qosmio range of notebooks - although running on the same CPU, they had an instant-on "Qosmio" media engine which was based on Linux and would enable DVD/TV/Music/Photo browsing/palyback...

asus has it for a long time... Called express gate...

2008-08-22T18:11:47.149-04:00

asus has it for a long time... Called express gate

what strikes me is that I have a MOBO with 15 drivers that need to be installed separately and that I have to manually check for updates and then update them.

why isnt there a service that does that for you ? Install a vanilla windows, start the thing and ALL drivers are installed in the latest version.

If someone wants to take this on, let me know...

chris

I wonder to what degree it will be possible to ext...

2008-08-20T01:29:37.212-04:00

I wonder to what degree it will be possible to extend the second boot mode and allow user-driven/developed content to determine the feature set. I for one support this line of thought given that most of the time I boot my laptop, I could stay in the browser for almost the entire time.

Brett,Thanks for reading. I look forward to your t...

2008-08-19T18:56:52.801-04:00

Brett,

Thanks for reading. I look forward to your team's design being so good that I am compelled to heap more praise on it.

Good luck

@Hank – I read your post and would like to thank y...

2008-08-19T18:33:12.656-04:00

@Hank – I read your post and would like to thank you for your praise for our Latitude On feature. Your statement, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a big deal"...really motivates our teams. While I disagree with your assessment of what we’ve done to innovate, I’d suggest you and your readers keep an eye on Dell for other innovations you’ll see from us in the future. Thanks again.

Brett McAnally, Director, Commercial Notebooks

If "instant-on" functionality catches on, I wonder...

2008-08-19T14:17:38.252-04:00

If "instant-on" functionality catches on, I wonder how this will effect the long-term viability of heavy OS's, like Windows, for mainstream consumers. If people get used to fast access to the applications they use 80% of the time, I'm sure Dell and other PC makers will expand this concept; further encroaching on the standard OS. Combine this with more powerful web-based apps and cloud computing and Sun's vision of the Network Computer will soon come to fruition.

Technology blogger and generally interesting fello...

2008-08-19T12:33:01.165-04:00

Technology blogger and generally interesting fellow Hank Williams recently blogged about the new Latitude-On option laptops from Dell. It brings up a question in my mind: Who is going to use this? The thing I wonder about is the quality of the user experience and the interactivity with "corporate standards."
http://bit.ly/J7V3M

One of the BIOS manufacturers added this feature t...

2008-08-19T09:24:34.658-04:00

One of the BIOS manufacturers added this feature to their BIOS. It's not a separate processor, and quite frankly, I don't see the point in a separate processor. It saves you some power, but adds cost, and you still have to run the display.

Reminds me of the DEC Rainbow which had both a Z80...

2008-08-19T08:24:13.759-04:00

Reminds me of the DEC Rainbow which had both a Z80 and an 8086! CPM or MS-DOS, baby!