Netbook/laptop + OS: Shortest time to action?

The new Acer Aspire one’s have instant on Android partition in addiotion to windows. Might be just what you need.

20 second boot up time almost instant :D

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/10/acer-aspire-one-aod250-holds-us-over-with-android-and-xp/

Reportedly Ubuntu can, if your netbook has an SSD drive, come up in five seconds. You can also put your laptop in Suspend (I believe it’s called Stand-By in Windows-land) mode to be able to quickly get it back up without using too much electricity (though still, of course, more than when turning it off).

I don’t know about the linux machines but my mac goes from safe sleep (memory saved in case of power loss and no sound) to fully on in a few seconds.

I vote Mac

@tramnineteen yeah mine too. Mac it is

instead buy a dictation device

then if you need faster startup times

keep your OS on a Solid State Drive AND keep your system in hibernation (or similar) until needed

I have a Toshiba Satelight T135 with Windows 7. When it’s on it is whisper quiet, most of the time its just the hard drive spinning. When its sleeping, it takes about 3 seconds to get to the log in screen, but you can disable that and get to word or whatever you use as a text editor even faster. Also, it costs $550 at Best Buy no rebates needed. It weighs 3Lbs and is very thin. Not macbook air thin but its slimmer then a mac book, and the battery lasts for ever, cnet says around 6 hours but I can spend the day browsing the web and word processing and the battery is still good to watch an episode of top gear when I get home. Sorry about the run on…

Hey, the T135 is decent. Mine also wakes up to Win7 in seconds, or I can cold-boot to a USB drive loaded with Linux about as fast. Three pounds and six-plus hours… best $500 I spent in a while.
Please tell me you got the SU4100 CPU. The SU2700 and the AMD chips kind of suck by comparison.