This article is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings about a topic. Please by rewriting it in an. (July 2009) () In computers, instant-on is the ability to nearly instantly, thus allowing to go online or to use a specific application without waiting for a PC's traditional to launch.

Cuando compramos un nuevo ordenador, nos encontramos con gran cantidad de programas preinstalados. Los fabricantes tienden a. What is InstantOn for NB? Instant On is a sleep mode that it can wake up your Eee PC ready to use in 3 seconds and more than 21 days of sleep. Or, you can uninstall InstantOn for NB from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel. Which countries install it?

Instant-on technology is today mostly used on laptops,, and because the user can boot up one program, instead of waiting for the PC's entire operating system to boot. For instance, a user may want to just launch a movie-playing program or launch an internet browser, without needing the whole operating system. There are and were true instant-on machines such as the, as described in the article.

These machines had complete resident in similar to the way in which the function is conventionally provided on current computer architectures. The 'instant-on' concept as used here results from loading an OS, such as a legacy system DOS, with a small hard drive footprint. Latency inherent to mechanical drive performance can also be eliminated by using or flash memory to load systems at electronic speeds which are orders of magnitude faster.

Contents • • • • • • • List of systems [ ] • Acer InstaBoot Netbook (based on ) • Acer RevoBoot Nettop (based on ) • Express Gate motherboards, notebooks, Eee Box (nettop), and EeePCs (based on ) • Canonical product announced in early 2010 • Dell, Latitude On Reader (based on ), Latitude On Flash (based on ) • • HP QuickWeb Probook notebook (based on ) • HP Instant On Solution Voodoo & Envy notebook (based on ) • HP Instant Web netbook (based on ) • QuickStart (based on ) • LG SmartOn (based on ) • InstantOn • Winki • Foleo • Phoenix • Quick Web Access (based on ) • Splashtop Inc. • Presto Timeline [ ] • In October 2007, introduced an instant-on capability branded 'Express Gate' on select motherboards, using DeviceVM's software and dedicated flash memory. • In May 2008, shipping 'Express Gate' based on Splashtop to its notebooks. • In July 2008, started shipping on its Voodoo notebooks, calling it 'Instant On Solution (IOS).'

• In October 2008, started shipping on its, calling it 'QuickStart.' • announced on 13 August 2008 that they would support 'instant on' in their Latitude line of laptops, leveraging 'a dedicated low-voltage sub-processor and OS that can enable multi-day battery life and which provides 'near-instant access to e-mail, calendar, attachments, contacts and the Web without booting into the system’s main operating system (OS). ' This OS will be running a variant.

• In January 2009, started shipping on its netbooks, calling it 'Smart On.' • In June 2009, started using on its, calling it 'RevoBoot.' • In June 2009, started installing an instant-on browser-only version of software on its Vaio NW laptops. • In September 2009, announced that it will ship a number of and commercial notebooks with a 'Quick Web' instant-on feature, which also utilizes software.

• In September 2009, shipped EeePC with 'Express Gate,' based on. • In October 2009, partnered with to offer instant-on notebooks and netbooks.

• In November 2009, shipped Latitude commercial notebooks, with Latitude On Reader and Latitude On Flash features, based on. • In November 2009, Google open source Chrome OS alpha. • In November 2009, shipped on its Aspire One, called 'InstaBoot.' • In December 2009, Mandriva published an Environment called 'Mandriva InstantOn' • By end of 2009, has shipped on over 30 million PCs. • In early 2010, Canonical, the sponsors for the Ubuntu Operating System, will have an instant-on proposition released to market.

Download Getting Started With Spring Framework Pdf To Word. Information may be released at the CES show in Las Vegas, January 2010. • In June 2010, buys Phoenix's. • In 2010, DeviceVM projected will ship on over 100 million PCs. • In October 2010, Apple introduced the new MacBook Air a next generation notebook that use flash memory technology that enables the ability of instant-on. • In February 2011, Splashtop OS released as a free download. Pros and cons [ ] An instant-on operating system is like those used by 1980s home computers such as the. This offers many advantages over a standard modern operating system: • It boots much faster.

• It is less vulnerable to as the system is mostly read-only. • It allows for diskless computers. • It is lighter.

• It consumes less power. However, this comes at the price of having limited local functionality, while focusing on web / cloud services. [ ] Consumer electronics [ ] In the past, consumer electronics manufacturers would emblazon radios and television sets with 'Instant On' or 'Instant Play' decals. In series filament sets, instant-on was accomplished by adding only a across the power switch to keep tube filaments lit at 50% power; the diode was placed such that the typical half wave of the day was. Instant-on advantages included near-instant operation of the television or radio and potentially longer vacuum tube life; disadvantages included energy consumption and risk of fire.

Most consumer electronics are inherently instant-on, so the moniker survived into the early solid state era to differentiate a product from its vacuum-tube based brethren (with being a notable exception). See also [ ] • References [ ]. Retrieved 2014-02-11. Retrieved 2014-02-11.

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