From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>Convenience, you are walking by the computer, if it's on you can check your
>email in about 10 seconds, if it's not turned on then it becomes a 5 minute
>adventure.

I use an old (486) laptop for mail and nntp news. It's always
"on" - actually, it has to be, because the special (and
expensive) lithium rechargeable battery that runs the clock and CMOS won't
hold a charge any more. When I'm not using it, I put it into suspend mode.
2 seconds to suspend, 5 seconds to reawaken. It even transparently recovers
the PCMCIA network connection.

I got used to "instant on/off" with my PDAs, now I expect it in
my PCs as well. IBM went to some trouble to get suspend/hibernate working
well on many of their older desktop machines too, under both OS/2 and
Windows.

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
 preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
    -- Microsoft advertisement on the box for Windows 2.11 for 286

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