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Boot Windows 7 in just 10 seconds

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:06:55 +0000

How would you like to boot up Windows 7 in just 10 seconds? With the newly developed BIOS from Phoenix it is now possible.

The BIOS was demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week. Phoenix calls their new BIOS “Instant Boot BIOS” and it works by starting all units (components) at once.

A traditional BIOS starts the components one at a time, which means Windows won’t load before that process is complete. That usually takes from 10 seconds and up. The video below shows the “Instant Boot BIOS” installed on a Lenovo T400S laptop. The machine is equipped with a Solid State Disk and a “clean” Windows 7 installation.

The new BIOS will also improve wake-up time after hibernation. Hopefully we’ll see this in PCs in no time.

Lenovo Atom Powered C100 All-In-One Desktop Goes On Sale For $399

James Allen Johnson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:36:29 +0000

The Lenovo C100 is a sleek and stylish All-In-One Desktop that offers a good amount of features for a very low price of $399. It’s perfect for college students, light weight users and anyone looking to supplement their laptop with a desktop offering.

The C100 comes equipped with a decent 18.5 inch LCD, offers a two-inch thick chassis and comes with two CPU options: Intel Core 230 and Core 330. The All-In-One also features a DVD burner, GMA950 Integrated graphics card and Windows XP.

On the memory front users will receive a rather low 1GB RAM and a 160GB hard drive. If the specs look familiar just take a look at most Netbooks currently being sold and you’ll realize the similarities.

Also, there’s no need to wait for Windows 7, you’ll get a free upgrade once it’s made available in October.

Splashtop Set to Reveal First “Instant-On” Netbook

JR — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:00:45 +0000

The quick power-up utility Splashtop has joined forces with Lenovo to create what’s being billed as the first-ever “instant-on” netbook.

Lenovo and DeviceVM, Splashtop’s manufacturer, will announce plans this morning to ship Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbooks with integrated Splashtop functionality. The program will be branded as “QuickStart,” but it’ll function essentially the same as any other Splashtop configuration — allowing users to run applications such as browsers, e-mail clients, and other Internet-based utilities right after hitting the power button, before the operating system even loads.

This is DeviceVM’s second big portable computing deal for Splashtop in recent months. The company secured rights to feature its program in ASUS’s Eee Box B202 Nettop systems back in August. At the same time, it announced $15 million in new funding, which was marked to be used for expansion into more global markets.

Silicon Valley-based DeviceVM has been around since 2006. Its first Splashtop-enabled machines shipped in October of last year as part of a previous deal with ASUS.

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