Re: How workable is Vista?

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:53:13 -0500, Vladimir Vassilevsky
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David Brown wrote:

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

Paul Keinanen wrote:

The first question, why on earth does the computer have to be booted?


It doesn't have to. There are hybernation and standby modes.

That is what I am using with modern laptops. However, this is not an
option to get away with all the clutter accumulating into the memory
or for installing updates.

With older hardware, such as W2000 on a dual processor system,
hibernate/standby was not a real option, so I had to run it all the
time (while turning of the CRT monitor for the night).

BTW, what is so wrong with rebooting? It only takes
a minite or two, if the PC is not cluttered.

I usually have 100-200 web pages open and also 5-10 PDF documents and
few other files that I am working with.

After the reboot it takes several minutes with a 1 Mbit/s or half an
hour on GPRS/dial-up internet connections to reload these pages
(Firefox does it automatically), then it takes several minutes to find
again the PDF documents (wherever I put them :-) and position the
cursor to the original paragraph. The same applies for other files
that I am working with. So in reality, a crash or a reboot means at
lest 30-60 minutes of extra work.

For this reason, I think it is necessary that the OS and hardware is
reliable. For this reason, I have avoided the W9x family as a plague.

Paul

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