SL-5600 "BOOT" TIME

[GoLinux]

Hello Group,

I\'m a brand new member of the group and not even yet an owner of a Zaurus, even though I\'m trying to make up my mind between getting the SL-5600 or waiting for the SL-6000.

At any rate, what I\'d like to know at this time is: how long does it take for the SL-5600 to \"boot\"? I mean, do you push the \"ON\" button and \"BAM!\" there it is everything as you had left it when you turned off the machine last time you used it, or what?

I know it may sound like a silly question for an experienced SL-5xxx user, but besides not being familiar with those machine, I\'m a long time user of Psion pocket computers (3c first, 5mx now). On those machines there is virtually no boot time and everything restarts from where you left, no matter what you were doing when you turned it off or how may apps you had open at the same time.

How does the Z behave?

Thanks in advance and look forward to join the ranks of the actual users....

[Anonymous]

I think it would restart from where you left, as long as you don\'t pull out the battery:)

[edo]

Hello Guest,

In general day-to-day usage, pressing the Power Button brings the Zaurus SL-5500 out of suspend mode \"On\" (2 seconds) or back into suspend mode \"Off\" (2 seconds).

If you do decide to \"shutdown\" the operating system it takes about 10 - 15 seconds to turn itself off, stopping the various processes. Turning it back on again (a full reboot) takes about 75 - 80 seconds.

You should rarely need to do a shutdown / full reboot in general operation, so you are looking at a couple of seconds most of the time. I connect my Zaurus to home and office wireless networks via WLAN CF card, and it \'remembers\' its last configuration and is back on the network upon suspend or reboot (which is nice).

I guess the later models (SL-5600, SL-C7XX, and SL-6000) will probably be that bit quicker.

Regards,
Steven Goacher.

[tumnus]

When you press the Off button, it doesn\'t fully turn off, it just suspends and goes into a low power mode, but preserves the RAM. So when you press the On button, it turns on instantly with all your work left intact.