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I cant tell you how many years I've been hearing this. Wasnt Vista supposed to be almost instant?

by lefstathiou 16y ago

epochwolf 16y ago
The only thing I've found to be "almost instant" is waking up my mac from sleep mode.
- sspencer 16y ago
  This and the battery performance while sleeping are, in my opinion, some of the main attractions of macs today.
- sprout 16y ago
  I've got a Dell Vostro 1510 w/ Vista sitting in front of me, and coming out of sleep is "almost instant."
  - epochwolf 16y ago
    I know plenty of people are happy with Windows 7 and Vista but with me Windows has such a bad history of crashing/hanging while coming out of sleep/hibernation that I can't trust it.
    - sprout 16y ago
      Oh, I love Ubuntu and am never happy with anything but, but Windows Vista/7 have parity with Macs on resume, and way outpace Linux (if only because the hardware is built for Windows.) My boss' Vostro was inexplicably hanging on logout/login, that seems to have corrected itself after a few forced reboots. (And I've had that experience a few times on all OS's, including OS X.) Actually, I can't remember it for Linux, but Ubuntu is much less careful about shutting down gracefully than Mac/Windows.
    - wvenable 16y ago
      I don't think it's an issue anymore -- every modern machine I have right now (even a netbook running XP) is flawless coming out of sleep/hibernation. From my experience, the vast majority of windows laptop users almost never shutdown their computers.
      - epochwolf 16y ago
        I've had two machines: an HP DV5000 (AMD/ATI) model and a Macbook Pro. Both of them have not been reliable with sleep mode using a stock Windows XP/Vista install (plus drivers/updates). I haven't tried Windows 7 in sleep mode yet but it's not worth my time to risk losing work. I've only had OSX fail once due to a crash* in sleep mode in 2 years (and over a thousand sleep/wake cycles). * I've had four failures to wake from sleep due to low battery in a 2 month span I was dealing with an old battery that was failing.
- mrshoe 16y ago
  Pressing the home button on an iPad?
- baddox 16y ago
  Waking my Windows 7 desktop from sleep is almost instant. It takes longer for my LCD monitors' backlights to flick on than for the login screen to appear.
chadgeidel 16y ago
Vista (and Windows 7) boot from "hybrid sleep" in less time than it takes my monitor to turn on. Power draw in "hybrid sleep" is negligible (less than the idle power draw of my 2 LCD monitors in sleep mode).
- MichaelGG 16y ago
  I thought "hybrid sleep" just meant that the machine is in sleep, but it can also transition to hibernation if your battery runs low.
  - sathyabhat 16y ago
    IIRC it transitions into hibernation after 'x' hours of no activity ( I believe x == 6 ), not sure.

I cant tell you how many years I've been hearing this. Wasnt Vista supposed to be almost instant?

epochwolf 16y ago

The only thing I've found to be "almost instant" is waking up my mac from sleep mode.

sspencer 16y ago
This and the battery performance while sleeping are, in my opinion, some of the main attractions of macs today.
sprout 16y ago
I've got a Dell Vostro 1510 w/ Vista sitting in front of me, and coming out of sleep is "almost instant."
- epochwolf 16y ago
  I know plenty of people are happy with Windows 7 and Vista but with me Windows has such a bad history of crashing/hanging while coming out of sleep/hibernation that I can't trust it.
  - sprout 16y ago
    Oh, I love Ubuntu and am never happy with anything but, but Windows Vista/7 have parity with Macs on resume, and way outpace Linux (if only because the hardware is built for Windows.) My boss' Vostro was inexplicably hanging on logout/login, that seems to have corrected itself after a few forced reboots. (And I've had that experience a few times on all OS's, including OS X.) Actually, I can't remember it for Linux, but Ubuntu is much less careful about shutting down gracefully than Mac/Windows.
  - wvenable 16y ago
    I don't think it's an issue anymore -- every modern machine I have right now (even a netbook running XP) is flawless coming out of sleep/hibernation. From my experience, the vast majority of windows laptop users almost never shutdown their computers.
    - epochwolf 16y ago
      I've had two machines: an HP DV5000 (AMD/ATI) model and a Macbook Pro. Both of them have not been reliable with sleep mode using a stock Windows XP/Vista install (plus drivers/updates). I haven't tried Windows 7 in sleep mode yet but it's not worth my time to risk losing work. I've only had OSX fail once due to a crash* in sleep mode in 2 years (and over a thousand sleep/wake cycles). * I've had four failures to wake from sleep due to low battery in a 2 month span I was dealing with an old battery that was failing.
mrshoe 16y ago
Pressing the home button on an iPad?
baddox 16y ago
Waking my Windows 7 desktop from sleep is almost instant. It takes longer for my LCD monitors' backlights to flick on than for the login screen to appear.

chadgeidel 16y ago

Vista (and Windows 7) boot from "hybrid sleep" in less time than it takes my monitor to turn on. Power draw in "hybrid sleep" is negligible (less than the idle power draw of my 2 LCD monitors in sleep mode).

MichaelGG 16y ago
I thought "hybrid sleep" just meant that the machine is in sleep, but it can also transition to hibernation if your battery runs low.
- sathyabhat 16y ago
  IIRC it transitions into hibernation after 'x' hours of no activity ( I believe x == 6 ), not sure.