Short Take: Intel has application accelerator
Intel's newly announced Application Launch Accelerator dramatically shortens the time it takes for software applications to load from a hard disk drive. Intel says a system with Launch Accelerator can launch three Windows 95 applications--Word, Excel, and PowerPoint--in 3.7 seconds compared with 11.3 seconds for an identical system without the accelerator. Intel is working with several vendors to deliver this technology to PC users.
Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor
Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time.
newly announced Application Launch Accelerator dramatically shortens the time it takes for software applications to load from a hard disk drive. Intel says a system with Launch Accelerator can launch three Windows 95 applications--Word, Excel, and PowerPoint--in 3.7 seconds compared with 11.3 seconds for an identical system without the accelerator. Intel is working with several vendors to deliver this technology to PC users.