It's been discussed many times but since the feature doesn't exist yet then we should keep talking about it

Instant On would be the perfect feature for a Tablet PC. According the article pubished on Reuters, "another concept that Microsoft said would soon become mainstream, the ability for computers to turn on and off nearly instantaneously."

Yes, we want it Now :lol:

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It would help to give the link to the article. Doh.

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It's not quite instant but I have my Toshiba M205 set to go into standby mode when I close the lid or slide the power button. Using the Toshiba Energy Saver, I set the Tablet to go into Hibernation after an hour.

It takes about 15 seconds for the Tablet to wake up from Standby and reacquire the WiFi connection. This has been working really well for me.

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Dido, Mochant. My NEC Litepad takes about two seconds to return from standby and about 15 seconds to reacquire the wireless connection. I am glad the standby mode is something Microsoft fixed in this Windows version. I still have hibernation and hard drives shut down turned off. Standby is a great feature and preserves the battery life. A typical 2.5 hour charge can last me about 4.5 hrs when I use standby when taking a break or pausing between thoughts. It would be great if this could be adapted into an instant on/off feature ...it at leasts shows that Microsoft is headed in the right direction.

That jibes with my experience. I regularly get 4.5-5 hours out of my M205 using this technique. If I get really aggressive or don't use WiFi, 6 hours is my best to date!

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Basic stopwatch test.

I have more somewhere... Layne I think I gave them to you in a spreadsheet for the Tatung article. Do you still have that?

Toshiba Portege M200 with 512MB, Pentium M 1.5GHz.
AC Power Connected:
Processor speed 1.5GHz

Power On to login screen - 22 sec
Power On including logon - 33 sec
Turn off - 17 sec

Restart to login screen - 44 sec
Restart including logon - 56 sec

Enter Standby - 4 sec
Resume Standby - 6 sec

Time to hibernate - 15 sec
Time to wake up from hibernate - 11 sec

Here are a few application open times:

Journal first load - 5 sec
Jounal repeat loads - 3 sec
OneNote first load - 5 sec
OneNote repeat loads - 3.5 sec
Solitaire - 1 sec

Battery as primary power source:
Processor speed reported as 598MHz

Power On to login screen - 27 sec
Power On including logon - 46 sec
Turn off - 22 sec

Restart to login screen - 50 sec
Restart including logon - 1 min

Enter Standby - 4 sec
Resume Standby - 6 sec

Time to hibernate - 35 sec
Time to wake up from hibernate - 11 sec

Journal first load - 5 sec
Jounal repeat loads - 3.5 - 4 sec
OneNote first load - 5 sec
OneNote repeat loads - 4 sec
Solitaire - 1 sec

Compare with Acer TravelMate 250PE:
- Uses Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.6GHz, 256MB memory, Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 with up to 64MB of shared memory, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
- Preinstalled software defaults

AC Power Connected:
Power On to login screen - 58 sec
Power On including logon - 1+ min

Restart to login screen - 48 sec

Enter Standby - 4 sec
Resume Standby - 6 sec

Jounal repeat loads - 2 sec

Compare with Acer TravelMate C300:
- Uses Intel Pentium M processor 1.5GHz, 512MB memory, Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 with up to 64MB of shared memory, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
- Preinstalled software defaults

AC Power Connected:
Power On to login screen - 30 sec
Power On including logon - 36 min
Turn off - 12 sec

Restart to login screen - 43 sec

Enter Standby - 2 sec
Resume Standby - 8 sec

Jounal repeat loads - 2 sec

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Cyberinmate: Could you please tell us what OS version you are running on your NEC Litepad? And I assume the Litepad is a tablet?
I am a big PDA user, and love the instant on option, and am looking at a way to bring to my home the power I need to drive a high res. screen and inteface to a wireless gateway, etc...

thanks, Rob.

IBM has been working on this type of RAM that is nonvolitile, meaning it doesn't wipe when you turn off the computer (reloading into ram is what boot up is for). If they ever get it right it will mean instant on even if you took the battery out and put it back in.