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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (51833)	10/20/2000 12:59:44 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles - I think you are right that PCs should be "instant on". My laptop is pretty close to that. I have the power switch set to "hibernate" so when I'm done working, or want to go somewhere, I just hit the switch. When I power back up everything is right where I left it. I have not "re-booted" this laptop in more than 2 months, but it is turned off several times a day. There is no reason that you can't do that on a desktop except that the BIOS support for the power switch is usually not there. No reason to give up any features to get "instant on".

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (51833)	10/21/2000 6:48:45 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Ever heard of server appliances? You buy a CD player and it plays CDs. You buy a radio and it plays radio. You buy a browser pad/fridge/television/eBook and you surf. You buy a network harddisk and you have a web/ftp/fileserver. You buy a Palm Pilot or a mobile phone and remote control every piece of equipment in your house via HTTP and WAP, iMode or HTML. If you want some intelligent software to run 24x7, you can install it onto some intelligent appliance, use an external server (like mail at Hotmail.com), or you buy a cheap thing like Sony Playstation, insert the Seti@Home CD and it just runs... Stuff that cannot connect will not sell.