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A better way?
By EricMartello on 9/9/2011 11:28:21 PM , Rating: 0
This seems like it's just renaming the existing "hibernate" feature to "hybrid boot"...and while the PC will start a little faster with "hibernate" than it does from a cold boot, it's not a huge difference.

I don't think that a system necessarily needs to spend so much time booting up if the use something like a "state" feature that saves "states" or snapshots of the drivers in the memory so they don't need to be loaded each time. That alone could potentially shave off 60-80% of the boot time down, maybe even get windows to a point where it boots in seconds rather than minutes even without a SSD.

RE: A better way?
By B3an on 9/10/2011 12:12:09 AM , Rating: 4
If you actually read the blog then you'd know thats not true.

The new shutdown/boot up will completely close the users account and not save any open software or settings. The only thing saved is the kernel. Then on boot all device drivers are initialized and the user account loaded making it pretty much the same as a with a cold boot and giving it a fresh boot feel.

It's also vastly faster than Hibernate which can still take a while to boot up. In the vid it takes 8 seconds to boot to Win 8 from pressing the power button. But literally 1 - 2 seconds of that is for Win 8 to load and start. The remaining 6 seconds of that is the EMFI/BIOS posting which isn't down to Windows.

RE: A better way?
By EricMartello on 9/10/11, Rating: 0
RE: A better way?
By Alexstarfire on 9/10/2011 5:53:34 PM , Rating: 3
Pretty sure a shutdown and a hibernate feature should not be one and the same.

BTW, I don't even have an SSD and I can start up my computer in less than a minute with ease. Had Windows 7 installed on here with daily use from a few months after it came out. SSD + this hybrid boot would easily take it under 20 seconds.

I'd be more interested to see startup times without an SSD since those are still in the minority. I know they are faster but they are also vastly more expensive.

RE: A better way?
By EricMartello on 9/11/2011 7:27:43 AM , Rating: 2
This isn't about shutdown, it's about boot-up. I mentioned resuming from hibernation as an example of what this "hybrid boot" seems to be a variation of. In other words they're taking something that's been around, changing it slightly and giving it a new name to make it seem like an improvement.

My original post stated that they should rework the software so that you get near instant-on type of functionality by saving a system "state" during shutdown so that drivers do not need to be loaded redundantly.

Off topic...SSDs may be more expensive per GB but they're also the best upgrade to make any system quicker and more responsive in terms of boot-up times and application opening & switching.

