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ak217 on Sept 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8

None of the current tablets and smartphones do boot, sleep, or hibernate. They go into a low-power state.

Osiris on Sept 9, 2011 [–]

My HTC phone actually does have a Hibernate option and a quick-boot, which is similar to this Windows 8 method of hibernating kernel and driver code causing cold boots to be extremely quick.

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