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Join Date: May 2004
 
2004-06-05, 10:36

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Originally Posted by Mac+
like the others: sleep, except for s/ware installs with my TiPB.


undertaker Do you mean that the startup procedure (boot time) was quicker after a shut down, or that the computer generally ran faster after a shut down as opposed to a sleep?

B/c a shutdown will clear the cache etc and generally clean up a lot of junk that accumulates which can eat away at your RAM, thus slowing the speed of your computer. I don't think sleep will eradicate this stuff, so I can understand your folks thinking that their computer got a bit "zippier" after a shut down and restart procedure, since they essentially got a clean slab of RAM to play with from scratch. (Did that make sense?)
Yes, that did make sense. Thank you for that answer. I do not know why people think 20 seconds is so fast. When I timed it with a stop watch, it came in between 20-30 seconds. I would say the average time was 35 seconds. I was implenting that my powerbook can start up in 20 seconds. I was not saying it does that everytime.

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