According to this eWeek article, Phoenix BIOS will be expanding its "pre-boot" capabilties to more machines. This new BIOS feature will be go beyond what Phoenix BIOS already provides in the HP Tablet PC. I wonder if this is really that useful as implemented. Is this compromise compelling or is it just that--a compromise? It seems to me you have to have a more extensive infrastucture for "instant on" or else it won't be used that much. I need to go over to TabletPCBuzz and see what others say about HP's "instant" access feature.
Posted by Loren at March 19, 2004 08:53 AMI was under the impression that the Quick boot on the HP was NetBSD and developed by HP. It is also contained on the SD card, not the BIOS.
Posted by: thadk on March 21, 2004 01:40 AM