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Phoenix Hyperspace

90 points posted to Dell, Desktops and Laptops by pavlosky50 Mar 10

Hyperspace is the best thing I can think of, for laptops. Is Dell planning to offer it soon? It will for sure make more people buy laptops by upgrading to one with Hyperspace in it. The added convenience will justifie a new one.

zanlok
Mar 10		 you really ought to explain what you are talking about
(ie: in your post)
ajmukon
Mar 10		 yeah, it helps...

i was like "huh? whats hyperspace? is this guy on drugs!?!.." i was really confused
aaron_h
Mar 10		 I read about this a couple of weeks ago. It really is an interesting idea/concept. I see one problem, there will always be that "one" application that is in Windows that you need to use, so you will boot to Hyperspace, read e-mail, check the web, then have to boot to Windows anyway to do something else.
aikiwolfie
Mar 10		 Ok I'm promoting because I'm curious to see how well this actually works. But i still say if you want a fast booting PC just get Ubuntu.
zmjjmz
Mar 10		 Does Hyperspace allow you to boot into Ubuntu too?
aikiwolfie
Mar 11		 No. Hyperspace is basically a cut down Linux OS with just what you need and no more to run a few apps like a web browser, e-mail client or DVD player. It's a similar concept to what Dell has on some of it's laptops at the moment except it takes things a little further.
aaron_h
Mar 11		 zmjjmz, that is a good question and I don't know for sure. I agree with aikiwolfie, I kind of want to see how it works, if it does work. It is a cool concept, but will it work in real life?
zanlok
Mar 11		 It is already "booted", so wanting it to "boot" into any OS is a non sequitur / oxymoron. IT would just be resetting or, at best - depending on implementation, "continuing" into the regular OS. "Boot" has a meaning that really doesn't have to do with the type of OS installed, just when the code execution handoff completes from what the BIOS loads from the appropriate sectors into the code loaded from those locations.

Microsoft itself is going to release a hypervisor OS at some point. Yes, yes, its more for the virtualization of all things OS, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts it will also have capabilities like this so that Microsoft doesn't let companies with these types of offerings grow too much into their market space.
zmjjmz
Mar 11		 Then we should have Dell get to this first!

Anyways, I suppose it'll boot into Ubuntu, (OS neutral?).
All I care about, and as long as Dell puts it on Dellbuntus.
 
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