Pheonix Bios UEFI Implementation - Boot in Seconds | The Coffeehouse

xgamer
Two Sides to Everything

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/video-phoenix-instant-boot-bios-starts-loading-windows-in-under/

That's very interesting from Windows Boot Speed and Green Tech point of view ... now only if MS and its partners get these things in the PCs especially netbooks ...

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Nice.

About time BIOS's got an update.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to ManipUni

#Sep 24th @ 11:54 PM

I used to think 'meh' when I heard about these things; a lot of people leave their PCs in sleep mode so they wake up in a few seconds so why the need for a fast cold boot?

Then I heard the statistic (not verifiable), that if all those people in the UK with Sky TV boxes switched them off, rather that leaving them on standby, we could switch off one power station. Although these things are on a small trickle of power, their vast numbers add up to a lot of electricity.

So a faster cold boot might encourage a lot of people to properly switch off and save a whole lot of combined resource.

Herbie

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to ManipUni

#Sep 24th @ 11:54 PM

Of course manufacturers will want a longer dell to display their logo ...

stevo_
Human after all

Wow- nice, about time they started using ~efi.

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

In reply to stevo_

#Sep 25th @ 1:01 AM

Now all I need is a wake up on record function in Media Center and a shutdown when finished recording,..

spivonious

I'm all for faster cold boots, but the reason I let my PC sleep instead of shutting down is so it can wake up to do things while I'm not there (updates, TV recordings, defrags, backups, etc.)