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If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten s
by iwontberude 3y ago
If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.
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- cafard 3y agoDuring boot time, one can sip one's coffee, glance at the newspaper, maybe tidy the desktop a little.
- zilti 3y agoWho boots every day?
- bravetraveler 3y agoI do, quite a few of my roommates in the past had as well. We use desktop machines that consume a bit of juice. SSDs are fast, why not save the electricity/heat? I feel this seems odd because of laptops and phones being overwhelmingly popular
- jhbadger 3y agoThe Steve Jobs quote was from the 1980s. Back then, you really did boot daily (at least; it wasn't uncommon on both Macs and PCs in that era to need to reboot multiple times a day because applications could and did crash the system often).
- iwontberude 3y agoI remember Mac OS crashing so much I found ways to resume the system from a crash state in some instances by pressing key combos and typing incantations into a shell of some sort.
- FireBeyond 3y agoThe equivalence is useless. There was not 100 lives of productive work done in that time, there was just 5M instances of 10 seconds being saved. "We made the planet 100 lives more productive" is just self-congratulatory.