a lot of the trouble (lack of speed) is in the bios of the machine.
then windows takes it's sweet time and waits on a lot of stuff while it's booting. (like getting an IP for instance).
one thing you can do is put the machine into S4 or "suspend mode" it's actually still running but using almost no power. then when you hit the switch or move the mouse (depending on how you set it up) it'll come on almost instantly. this is enabled in windows98 and above i believe. and it will "work" now. of course your hardware has to support it as well.
device states are all saved in memory.
anyway, there are big hurtles to overcome before real performance desktops or workstations can be "instant on".
i forget where the site is, but people have shown that a hacked bios (openbios.org?) can POST and do all it's other crap in a few ms on current hardware. This was required to allow for 99.9% uptime. now it's up to the OS vendors to fix up their load times, etc.
just my 3? cents
-eric
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