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    ASUS' Big Development

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Leon, Jul 23, 2008.

  1. Leon

    Leon Notebook Deity

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    The ASUS sneak attack. The most interesting story the media is downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip on all its motherboards, which will boot Linux instantly on start-up. When you flick the switch the machine is instantly on. (It's about time.) Of course, you will have to press another button for the machine to load Windows.

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2325779,00.asp
     
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  2. DaveA50

    DaveA50 Notebook Guru

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    Yea, asus express gate. It's on the new montevina platforms.
    It really isn't too great though, as it still takes me about 30 seconds to load up a website, starting from the time I hit the express gate power button.
    I do like the idea though.
     
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