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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (62258)	10/28/2001 4:01:13 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - ACPI compliant systems have many options for preserving state without user intervention, and laptops are the most flexible of all IMO. My 5 year old, like you, is very impatient, and also expects that the system will accommodate anything she might do without problems. That system is ready to use within 2 seconds of opening the cover, and suspends in a second or two also. The OS has not been restarted in months. I set her laptop up to suspend on either closing the lid or pressing the "sleep" button. If she hits the more isolated power button, the system hibernates. Hibernation is really not necessary unless you plan on removing batteries, something she doesn't do. If for whatever reason the battery drains while in suspend, it will automatically go into hibernation. You say "Most people either hibernate or shut down their Windows XP before turning off power" but I strongly disagree. I almost never shut down my laptop - it was last rebooted in August. And I don't hibernate or suspend either. I let my actions (such as closing the lid) make those decisions for me. And most of the road warriors I run across treat their systems the same way. It sounds like you are operating kind of circa 1995 in your user paradigm. Maybe that's why you don't understand some of the benefits we are talking about. I don't know exactly what you are referring to about 3rd party apps corrupting each other. DLL aliasing does a lot to keep this from happening, and I don't have any problems with it. Developers need to understand what XP certification means in terms of DLL aliasing to get the full benefits, but even an older app will get a pretty clean sandbox to play in.