Donn Denman's advice to Apple

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
A good interview with an ex-Apple employee on Macminute is rendered slightly silly when he comes out with:

'As for advice to Apple, Denman urges the company to build a laptop that instantly awakens from sleep.'



Erm... is it me or haven't Apple's laptops been instant awake for years? Experts eh

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  • Reply 1 of 17
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    i am pretty shure that is how it is
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  • Reply 2 of 17
    nofeernofeer Posts: 2,427member
    my wifes' ibook pops to life from sleep bingo, not so my dell it lingers like i do in the morning windows doens't have a sleep mode more like slumber hit snooze alarm mode.
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  • Reply 3 of 17
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    More like 3 seconds



    The optical drive reads and then the screen pops on and it takes about a second.



    3 seconds is not instant!
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  • Reply 4 of 17
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    They have been since the advent of Mac OS X. Before, they used about 20 to 30 seconds to get out of their sleep. Because Mac OS X has far better sleep and energy management, it's now instantaneous.
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  • Reply 5 of 17
    low-filow-fi Posts: 357member
    What a tool DD is...
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  • Reply 6 of 17
    messiahtoshmessiahtosh Posts: 1,754member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by low-fi

    What a tool DD is...



    LOL
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  • Reply 7 of 17
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    Shutdown and save would still be nice.
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  • Reply 8 of 17
    the cool gutthe cool gut Posts: 1,714member
    **** sleep ... instant ON would be great!
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  • Reply 9 of 17
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
    Yeah, I would like to just yell @ My Computer:



    ON!

    WAKE UP!

    POWER!

    SIT!

    ROLLOVER!

    PLAY DEAD!

    HEEL!

    SHUT DOWN BOY!



    Toasters too:

    TOAST!

    LIGHT!

    MEDIUM!

    DARK!

    CRISPY!



    Like in them Sci-Fi movies.



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  • Reply 10 of 17
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    What's the fuss? I hit my spacebar or whatever and BAM, it's awake. Okay, maybe TWO seconds. Is this guy honestly quibbling over 1-2 seconds? He's not, is he?







    If you're THAT busy and pressed-for-time in your life, I think it's time to reconsider some things, and re-think some priorities.



    "Dammit, I'm in BUSINESS, making deals...I don't HAVE 2 seconds to wait for my screen to come on. COME ON, Apple!"







    Then don't put it to sleep, dickhead, if your time is that important.



    That's a whole new level of Specwhoritis I've not seen before!



    "I want my Mac to wake up YESTERDAY, you fools...before I even THINK about it wanting to wake up...in fact, it should wake ME up."
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  • Reply 11 of 17
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    Perhaps he's still running Mac OS 9



    Or perhaps he meant instant on.
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  • Reply 12 of 17
    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pscates

    Then don't put it to sleep, dickhead, if your time is that important.



    Too obvious.



    You know, some people never relax.
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  • Reply 13 of 17
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Him or me?
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  • Reply 14 of 17
    smirclesmircle Posts: 1,035member
    Quote:

    "I've been wondering for the last 10 years when Apple will make the next quantum leap in UI [user interface], as we did moving to the GUI [graphical user interface]," Denman says. "Maybe I just want to repeat the experience, but I think the paper on a desktop metaphor has been stretched to its limit. The next big jump is to VR-style 3D applications. Like the Mac-era GUI jump, we'll need a new pointing device, new kinds of widgets, and new ways to organize our data. At first, people will call it a toy, and won't take it seriously. But I think this is the future. In the last five years I've started to think this will happen outside Apple in the open source world, but I'd love to be part of any Apple effort to start another revolution in UI."



    This is completely bogus. MS has had some experimental 3D interface, and it was horrible. If you are working on a desk, to you need 3D paper or is 2D wonderfully sufficient?



    The screen is 2D, not matter what you do. Simulating 3D will do nothing for the ease of use or user friendlyness.



    Dimensions are not like Mhz...
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  • Reply 15 of 17
    dfryerdfryer Posts: 140member
    3-D interfaces are for pansies. The only *real* way to fly is a 5-dimensional web-enabled p2p function-oriented User Space..and the 27 button mouse to use it.



    Then all we'll need is content.
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  • Reply 16 of 17
    mac the forkmac the fork Posts: 722member
    Smircle, I think Donn was talking about a virtual reality-style 3D helmet... none of that old Microsoft isht. I dunno if that's a good idea though. I'd rather just go to computers as coprocessors for the brain. That sort of technology would raise interesting epistemic issues, come to think about it.
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  • Reply 17 of 17
    jubelumjubelum Posts: 4,490member
    We need to put this guy in front of a commission and examine him.



    Where are my updates?

    What's this about an OS X trojan horse?

    What about Steve's Wife?

    What did you know and when did you know it?











    I still like his advice better than Michael Dell's advice to Apple a few years back.
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