Comments on: Instant-on OS gets Adobe photo-editing support

Photoshop.com comes to Phoenix Technologies' HyperSpace platform for Netbooks and laptops.

[ikramerica--2008]

what is so hard about waking from sleep again? on Mac OS X, wake from sleep is instant on. with netbooks and their SSDs, shouldn't even a restore form hibernate in windows be almost instant on?

[freemarket--2008]

I believe they mean instant on at power up, not from sleep mode.

[Vegaman_Dan]

Win 7 time to restore from sleep- 3 seconds to the login prompt. After entering your credentials, 1 second.

Win7 makes the netbook totally usable there. It's no longer an issue.

[joshua.goldman]

Yes, what freemarket--2008 said. This is from off to on, not sleep mode. While you could of course put a Windows Netbook in standby, this allows for better battery life.

[forever4now]

Adobe should develop rudimentary photo-editing apps for smartphones. It would be great to be able to touch up a photo you just took on your smartphone, before emailing it or uploading it to a photo site like Flickr/Picasa. I'm sure they could get a few dollars for the app, in the app stores.

[Mr. Dee]

Sorry, but waiting 30 seconds for your laptop to boot from BIOS to Desktop is not gonna kill you, 8 seconds 10 seconds from hibernation. I think this is just a useless gimmick that will fail in the the next 24 seconds.

[Vegaman_Dan]

I have Photoshop on my Acer Aspire. It runs quite well even on the reduced power of the CPU... but the screen real estate is something you can't escape from. Editing any image from a current camera is painful on the 1024 x 600 resolution. The palettes and tool bars themselves are often much taller than 600 pixels and by the time you get even a couple of the things on the screen, you have very little space left at all for the actual image.

No OS is going to change that basic screen limitation.

[gerrrg]

So, while Instant On gets flash support, the mobile market has to wait? Oh those folks at Adobe are just brilliant, aren't they?

[Drew.0]

Windows mobile has pretty good flash support with flash lite and excellent with skyfire. 6.5 is supposed to have even better flash support.