Coming out of Hibernation Mode… (or why I love OSX!)
I’m a guy that likes to be “practical” with things in life… I like to use my time efficiently, constantly looking at ways of improving on what I need to do, finding quicker, faster, smarter ways of working…
It seems that OS X (the operating system for the Mac), has been built for people like me… Whenever you lift the lid, on the MacBook, and allow it to come out of hibernation mode, it just “wakes up”… perhaps you have to a wait a few seconds, for the screen to reappear, but it’s all there, working, and ready to go…
Now the PC, is a completely different matter… Every time I go open the lid on my Toshiba Satellite Pro, and wake the computer out of hibernation mode, it seems, that it’s a 50/50 chance of it making it… Not only do I have to give it the statutory minute or two, to see if it might resuscitate itself (of course, you have to let the visible indicator go all the way to completion, to see if the computer might manage to at least complete the “wake up” process… but then, you have to wait for it, for a minute or two to see if it will actually wake up, or chooses just to “hang” whilst it’s desperately reading something off of the hard drive, desperately looking for that little bit of hope, that might allow it to wake up…
It seems, it’s usually quicker by this point to just force the computer to shut down, holding the power button, and then start the computer up again…
Is it so hard to have a computer go into hibernation mode, and then just wake up??? What is it about the Windows XP Operating system, that forces the software to go on a search, hunt and destroy every time it wakes up?? Whilst OS X
on the Mac, can just simply “wake up”??
If it weren’t for some of the PC specific software I have to run, I’d long have left the Mac behind… Heck, if it weren’t for the fact that I haven’t managed to figure out how to use WINE, on OS X, to run the few pieces of software that I need, I would have long left the Windows XP PC behind, and migrated it to a linux environment… But alas, the financial industry must make all of it’s tools for the Windows platform.. And I must continue to experience the pains of using a Windows PC again…
What amazes me, is how the heck does the international community allow software that is so painfully bad, and so poor in it’s performance to be so mainstream?? It’s like self-inflicted torture… Sometimes, I just wish Mac would get over their whole exclusivist approach, seeing as they’ve migrated onto the Intel processor, and start building into the OS, the ability to natively run Windows Apps… Once that feature’s up and running – we’ll see a whole wave of people moving from a PC to a Mac…
But till then, let’s just hope that re-starting the PC continues to let the computer start again, and we can get on with our work… Until the day we all manage to migrate over to a Mac…
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