New tech cuts PC boot times
Booting up and waiting has become a fact of life with computing, but that doesn’t have to remain the case with a crop of home entertainment PCs reaching the market. "A new technology called InstantON is a direct challenge to computers running Microsoft Corp.’s XP Media Center platform, which forces users to stare at the all-too-familiar Windows hourglass after they turn on the PC simply to watch TV or play a DVD."
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