Why should I need to waste so many resources and 1-3 minutes to get started?

Every time I start my computer, I do the following:

Start messenger,TweetDeck, Spotify, (most of the time a Web Browser) and then Visual Studio 2010 to do some work.

4/5 are tools with a connection to the cloud (well 5/5 if the Start Page of VS2010 counts ;). So I’m actually only need access to the cloud and some tools to work with. I use Spotify to play music, music sent to me over the wire from the cloud, TweetDeck so see and send messages over the cloud, Messenger to keep contact with my friends and send messages over the cloud, a browser to get information located on the cloud.. Visual Studio 2010 to build apps for the cloud ;)

I put my working project also in the cloud to get access to it from any places, I use Dropbox to store some documents, I use a NAS that is connected to the cloud to I can get access any of my files through the cloud. I’m in and on the cloud most of my time.

What I need is a screen, a internet connection and a simple tool to get access to my hard drive for local storage, tools connected to the cloud. Why should I need to wait 1-3 minutes and waste about 1 gig of space just to see a boring loading screen of the OS too just use simple apps that will bring me into the cloud? Why use so many resources for such simple tasks? If I need to create a presentation, write a document etc, I can use tools located in the cloud, so what I only need is a OS that can connect me to the cloud and a “browser” to get access to the tools I need. The browser could be my OS!

Look at iPhone, a very nice UI, just show me some buttons with my apps, easy to access the apps I want and easy to use. The best part, it’s in a little box and it’s quite (when no people calls me ;)). The following is a simple UI, I could live with a UI like this to just do my work:

It’s simple, it’s in a little box, it gives me the basic information I need (most of the information is gathered from the cloud). I could easy press an image and open the program I want to use, and they could be located in the cloud. For example, Spotify. It’s like a browser, it only gather information from the cloud and show it on the screen. The app could easily be created so I could access it though a web browser, or as small as it’s on the iPhone (and how much resources is needed to just use Spotify on my iPhone?).

When I turn my computer on every day, and look at my desktop after spending some loading times, I just feel that my computer is heavy. Something makes it heavy.. I want to see something new, I want to see a light weight OS, a simple OS that doesn’t takes to much time to load just to get started.. how long can it take for a computer so just show some images?

Just a thought!

3 Comments

  • My Mac boots so quickly and I never really have to shut it down. Seriously. I just close the lid. I open it later, runs for hours and hours with no recharging needed. ie. I can come home from work, fire it up, and use it all evening - plug it in before I goto bed.

    I switched to a macbook pro 15" for $1350 this year and it's the best purchase I've ever made. Parallels runs all my windows and I could do boot camp if I wanted.

    I've never had to reboot it - outside of when I want to. (I restart my Windows development machine often).

    Simple things like copying files...just work and work fast.

    This isn't meant to be a 'get a mac', I'm just saying after reading your tweet that I was thinking I never have that 'sit and wait' experience since I've had this.

    The hardest thing I had to do was adjust to a different key layout, in 3 days it's normal now.

    No OS is perfect, but this sure is fast, clean, and typically headache free experience.

    I do think the 'tablet' experience will be the future for non-workstation type tasks. iPad is the pre-cursor, I think Google tablet will be nice. The more competitive the better for us.

    I predict (this is obvious) that MS will launch a tablet with their new Windows 7 series OS of Silverlight/XNA

  • Shouldn't the title of your article be "Why should I"... That means Why instead of While.

  • Someday good SSDs will be affordable (for me)... all the pretty graphics and background services come with a price; so does moving from native to partially managed code (VS2008-VS2010). The IO department is still lacking on many modern PCs (that includes you, Mac-users :-) but hopefully this will be fixed with the market trends/demands soon enough.

Comments have been disabled for this content.