Are there any computers in the world that start up as soon as their button is turned on?

Question

Most computers I have used have taken at least 3 minutes to get to the Windows logon area and then have taken 5 minutes to load up Windows fully after the password has been entered.

Think how much electricity this wastes. It also takes 3-5 minutes to shut down the average computer. Multiply this waste by the number of computer owners in the world and you have a massive wastage of electricity - something we're in short supply of any way.

I wonder how many tonnes of coal/fossil fuels have to be burned to power up/down all of the computers worldwide?

Answer 1

Nope computers have to go thru a logical start up and bring all sorts of little programs up in a specific order. Lots of little programs you don't even know about.

A computer is not a TV.

Answer 2

It sounds as if your computer needs a general clean up.
Professionals do tend to charge a lot for this service but there is a very cheap do it yourself method that you may wish to try.
If it doesn't work you can still go for the professional option.

Find yourself a good sized plastic bucket that holds at least 4 litres of water. If you can't find a plastic bucket you can use a galvanised one but the effects may be slightly noisier.

Unplug all the electrical and non-electrical leads to your computer, pick it up and take it into your back yard.

Place it on that picnic table over by the shed with the door falling off.

Enter the shed, being careful not to pull off the last remaining hinge, and find the 14lb sledgehammer that should be under the sheet which is underneath the rusty lawnmower that you meant to take to the dump last February.

Raise the sledgehammer over your head and bring it down sharply on top of the computer.

Immediately this has been achieved, put the sledgehammer down and pick up all the little pieces that flew off from the blow and place them in the bucket of water.

Now raise the sledge hammer and repeat.

When the complete computer is in little pieces and in the water in the plastic or galvanised bucket, put the sledgehammer back in the shed being extra careful that the whole thing doesn't collapse as you try to shut the door which is now being held on by one screw in one hinge.

Find a garden fork and use it to stir up the contents of said bucket.

Now tip water out leaving computer parts.
The bucket and contents must now be taken into the kitchen and placed in the oven. Close the door, turn to number 6 and programme (sorry about the spelling of programme - this is how we spell it in England) the timer for 4 hours.

Sit down and have a really strong cup of tea (or coffee if you're American)

When the buzzer goes remove the now melted bucket from oven.
Spend the next 16 days scraping melted plastic off computer parts.

Now the fun starts.

Open your "How to put your computer back together again" manual at page 4 and . . . . . . . you haven't got a "How to put your computer back together again"?

Oh!

In that case, put your hat and coat on, catch the number 45 bus from the bottom of your road and buy a ticket for PC World.

There, you will find all sorts of lovely, shiny computers.
They have silver ones, and blue ones, and even a pretty yellow one.

Thank you for using Slartibartfast Computer Services.
Any time we can be of service.

Answer 3

Mine's an Alienware, Dual AMD Athlon 4400 processor, Dual Nvidia 7800 GTX in SLi mode, 2GB RAM, 500GB hard drive at 7200rpm. I think it takes about 30 seconds to boot up and less to shut down. I imagine it's a matter of processor speed, RAM speed, memory cache sizes, and I expect hard drive speed is pretty important too because that's what loads your desktop when you switch on.

A computer powerful enough to boot up instantly would most likely use huge amounts of power while it's turned on compared to a slow one that takes several minutes to boot so unless you switch it on and then straight off again, on the whole you'd be using way more electricity with a supercomputer like that.

EDIT: Timed it: actually mine's 60 secs start-up and 30 secs shutdown.

Answer 4

First thing I'll say: ALL computers on this world "start up" as soon as their buttons are turned on ;)

Second: Average time to load the operating systems(such as Linux and Windows) differ from one to other and they depend on hardware(a Pentium4 with 2GB ram will start faster than a Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram).
Operating systems by default have their settings set for the majority of users, so a tweaking will decrease the time(i disabled more than half of XP services).
My own performance was with the Hibernate option on XP: 3 seconds start-up, 1 second shutdown :D

Third: I'll give you a thumb up for the question. I appreciate you care about the world.

Answer 5

its great to think like that but i am sorry there is no computer starts on switching on immediately infact the start up of the system is not dependent on the computer buton the operating system .while a computer is started it first loads the os we are using is a 32 bit one which takes some time to load all the files that is it initialises all the start up files thats why we feel the system is using a lot of power but it uses only 1/3 of the power u supply

Answer 6

The day solid-state replaces hard drives is when that will happen.

Think about it, look at the size of a 2 gig memory stick. Now tie 25 of those together and you have a 50 gig "solid-state drive". Put in a battery backup to preserve data during power down and you have just put the hard drive business out of business...Like CDs did to cassette tapes.

Now you have near instant access for all programs.

One day....

Answer 7

The human brain is a computer and that starts up again as soon as you wake up although it didn't really switch off it just went into night time mode.

Answer 8

that would be a wondrous thing wouldnt it???

i wait at LEAST 10 minutes for my Windows to reach the log on screen, load, and then run the anti-virus thingy.

Answer 9

most macs start up and are ready to use in under 60 seconds o well i just guess thats what comes from using the better operating system lol

Answer 10

considering they use only 5-12 volts not much...
If you want the computer to start and close faster make sure you only have necessary programs in your start up files, thats what takes so long.