Hyperspace BIOS: boot in 4 seconds
There’s absolutely no reason you should be waiting the three-plus minutes it takes your computer to boot up Windows, says Woody Hobbs, CEO of Phoenix Technologies. And indeed, if Hobbs has his way, you may not have to endure those waits much longer. Phoenix says its new technology, HyperSpace, will offer mobile PC users the ability to instantly fire up their most used apps — things like e-mail, web browsers and various media players — without using Windows, simply by pressing the F4 button. Chipmakers and PC manufacturers have been trying to liberate themselves from lengthy startup times for a while, according to Hobbs, but the experience has been “controlled up in Seattle.” Indeed, Hobbs says Microsoft regards HyperSpace as “outside their sphere of influence,” and is not too happy with Phoenix’s offering, which adds yet another voice to the already loud chorus of voices complaining about operating-system bloat.
Chipmakers and PC manufacturers, on the other hand, are thrilled. “We’re really excited about what Phoenix is doing,” says Steve Grobman, director of Intel’s Business Client Architecture Group. “It really shows how companies are starting to use the underlying virtualization building blocks we put in our silicon in some really new and smart ways.” Grobman says Intel will continue working with Phoenix and companies doing similar things in virtual or embedded environments, like VMware and Parallels. “Our standpoint is that we want to make sure all of these guys have access to these technologies. The thing that’s interesting about what Phoenix is offering is that it’s proof that this technology can be used to solve a wide range of problems,” Grobman says. Now that sounds really useful!
Source: Wired
Comments(42)
my pc takes secoonds to boot up anyway
3+ minutes?
What a bunch of liars. 20 secs maybe.
Yes your bios maybe but your OS ?
Yeah my core2duo notebook is less than 10sec from power button to login. From there I’ve got every application available rather than just the 1 or 2 this bios supports.
BTW wasn’t RLSlog recently complaining about a website that copy/pasted entire articles from here without making it clear these were quotes and with only a small attribution of the source at the end?
sans you are obviously misunderstanding term booting and booting from hybernation…
3+ minutes. Aha.
Martin, Sans is not misunderstanding anything. He is right 10 – 15 seconds is enough to startup your system when hit the powerup button ( I don’t Mean booting from hybernation ) .. i mean booting when your poweroff your system. Dual2Core Can do much more ..
Well on my AMD X2 6000 booting from power button to login is fast, but from logging in to fully loaded system is helluva slow
So its small linux-based os run from flash memory, I guess its good for those who don’t know how to make dualboot system.
I have come to realize that the comments here aren’t worth reading. EVAR.
I BET they are gona end up with a new os in ther hand theres no other way to make every thing work
but however i would like to just trow in a copy of crysis in my dvd and chose to boot from it and it only plays the game like a consol based mashine.
when that happen i say “F******K you XboX,PS3,W3″ my pc preforme better then any of you anyway YEAH!
sorry if i did spell anything rong…
with xbox i was refering to xbox360 and with w3 i meant Wii
sorry for that was i bit carried away as you say…
if its does enable you to run for e.g. crysis by booting to it, and without the overheads of xp/vista gui, performance should be alot better,
worht a look, im still waiting for flash drives to get cheaper, then you can boot in 3-5 seconds.
finally they are starting to use the technology without waiting for some lame microsoft company to hurry and up figure out how to use it.
[i]if its does enable you to run for e.g. crysis by booting to it, and without the overheads of xp/vista gui, performance should be alot better[/i]
keep dreaming.
But for looking up e-mail or playing some songs, it sounds just great.
yeh but is diz gonna be betta than halo 3?????? plz answer i need knowz.
rslog, the mac fangirls strike again.
what the hell, 3 minutes to start up? talk about disinfo ….
my laptop takes 34 seconds, i timed it, so from totally shut off to desktop everything working.
“my laptop takes 34 seconds, i timed it, so from totally shut off to desktop everything working.”
So what?
34 seconds is actually rather slow to show up your desk.
Did you honestly think this is where “booting” ends?
So I don’t get it…you can set it up so that when you press F4, you could have Outlook pop up immediately and check your email without having to boot up the PC?
How does this virtualization make this work?
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM06605112007-1.htm
link to article on CNN Money.com
Some of u talk so much crap, im on dual amd 5600 with 2 gig mem, and it takes at least 60 secs to boot then about 2 min for it to load up any background programs, so all that stuff about 30 secs on a laptop haha so lies. Why talk crapp ?
lol judgey than your installation really suxx
go buy console
lol, so u telling me peoples lapptops boot faster than 60 secs, and we not talking about a new install i mean after a few months of installing deliting moving files?
Also the only console i need is the Wii
You can boot in 30 sec if you don’t have any software installed. An older Windows instalation will take a little bit more time.
my Vista laptop takes 35 seconds to desktop everything running
but it also has a direct media start-up option that bypasses Windoze in about 5 seconds
It’s taking me over three minutes to boot from power-on to a loaded desktop. System use to only take 30 seconds to boot. I think its time for a reformat and OS reinstall. Too much crap being loaded or something is conflicting in my registry. Or maybe its just my crappy P4-1.7Gig, 1Gig RAM system but its all I can afford. Thanks for the article!
anyone who takes more than 40 seconds to desktop from scratch does not know anything about their pc/laptop/whatever, or has a computer from 1999. sure you cant achieve that boot up speed with just standard xp/vista installed, you need to tweak a bit, just google it, n00b.
jv, you missed the point, the article said 3 minutes to start, mine is 34 secs, so the article is filled with disinfo to sell their own junk which noone needs. i can use anything within 34 secs, doesnt matter what. next time, read properly before saying dumb stuff, borat.
the best versions of ASUS motherboards have this gimmic already
Judgey, your system sucks.
I’m on a Centrino Duo laptop (1.67 ghz), 2 gigs of ram, 128 mb video card, and Windows Vista Home Premium, my comp takes like 20 seconds to boot (from the time I hit the power button, to getting online using Firefox). And I’ve had the same installation since mid-summer.
It would indeed be nice if you could insert your crysis dvd and it would run without having to load your OS first like on a console. But that won’t happen real soon. Still, my comp boots in under 30 seconds, everything running and ready to go…
Ok, I was lying… 32 seconds and I can browse in windows explorer…
I have a custom-built 1.8Ghz system running Windows 98SE. From the time I press the power button until the time the last background application loads is less than a minute for me. Not exactly speedy, but nowhere near the exxagerated boot time of 3 minutes. Note that I don’t have a lot that runs in the background, mainly just my firewall and GetRight.
My Vista boots in roughly 30 seconds, that includes loading all my beginning progs and being ready to roll.
I have to do the thinking for Phoenix?
Release a Bios With Linux builtin like DSL
Funny how a peice of decent software can receive such newbie, no minded comments. Too bad this site doesn’t have a separate tech area, it would be worthwhile reading relevant and useful posts instead of children stating how fast they THINK their OS has booted up, and then droning on and on about it.
Either that or have a more skillful question to post, have the SPAM question followed by an ‘idiot’ question to weed out clowns posting irrelevant garbage. Today it is 8+9, simply subtracting 1 afterwards would do in many of the posters here.
I lump this in the same category as download accelerators, browser accelerators, internet accelerators, modem accelerators, RAM disk accelerators, and bootup accelerators (which is far from a new concept). It all ends up being a bunch of hooey that screws around with stuff that shouldn’t be screwed around with to hide the fact that it’s fakery.
Some people get all obsessed about their 30 second boot time and spend hours or days making the boot time a few seconds shorter – and waste more time doing that than they ever would have just leaving it alone!
If you’re taking 3 minutes or more to boot, then you usually have a problem – most likely spyware on an older machine without SP1 or SP2 installed, which can get you a few thousand pieces of spyware loading up at boot.
Slashdot article :
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1533209
3 minutes? LOL. Time cut down on the spyware or something. This new box takes much longer than the old one (RAID card scanning for 6 drives, plus intel’s own slow RAID bios looking for 6 more and the USB stuff too). And I can still boot (not resume from hibernation), login & enter password, load startup processes and all in under a minute .
“sans you are obviously misunderstanding term booting and booting from hybernation…”
I don’t use hibernation. As everyone else has pointed out a cold boot this quick is kind of standard on new notebooks. Anyone with an old notebook that would want this BIOS can’t have it because that’s not how computers work.
BTW my software firewall loads at a certain point during the boot process, when the network card is initialised.
Presumably this fantastic BIOS will be enabling my network card and establishing a network connection without going through Windows’ full boot process which enables my firewall and yours. Super. Can’t see any problems with that.
Judgey, if takes you 60 seconds from power button to desktop you need to turn off some processes. I have an amd 2800+ and its only 27 seconds from power button to fully loaded desktop. Its not even a dual core.
And medic666, youre no better yourself!
28 sec to boot fully
Dual Core E6600 @3300
2gig ocz
lastxp
Cant wait for solid state HDs to get cheaper