Intel Offers a Quick Start Up Solution

In this article there's a reference to an article at PC World about Intel using Robson flash memory to significantly reduce the startup time of a PC as well as faster startup times for apps. Since the Robson flash memory is not a typical hard drive that has to spin up to load apps, the startup time is increased, sometimes 5 times faster. An example, with the flash memory it only took 2.9 seconds to launch Quicken, whereas the PC with standard memory took 8 seconds.

One thing that particularly annoys me on the Mac platform is the startup time for graphics applications. Particularly Adobe applications (most notably Bridge). I can startup Photoshop and it takes about 30 seconds to load completely. That doesn't sound like a lot and it's helpful to have another machine to move over to to keep me occupied, but sometimes you just need to get something done quickly and you expect all of your computing power to help you in those situations.

Since Apple has partnered with Intel for their chip manufacturing, it would be interesting to see an X86 OSX Mac with the Robson flash memory model in place. Boot up and go!