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10.5 And Quick Switching With Sleep To Disk?
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My understanding from a comment Steve Jobs made at (I believe) WWDC is that you could suspend the state of the machine and hop into windows and vice versa for quick switch-overs. As I read the list of features recently posted for 10.5, I do not see that as a feature. Did I just remember something that wasn't said, or is this missing when it was expected to be here?
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That's weird. They used to refer to the fast OS switching feature. It would be unfortunate for those who use Boot Camp if they weren't able to deliver it.
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That feature was on Apple's site for a while, then it was removed.
It seems that it won't be in 10.5.0. Hopefully it will come in a .1 upgrade sometime since that feature is really smart.
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It was never supposed to be on Apple's site to begin with. The story goes that it was posted when they did the big Leopard content update on apple.com during WWDC07. Apparently, someone saw it and asked the product manager for Boot Camp about it at WWDC. Supposedly, he flipped out that it was there and immediately ran off to contact marketing to take it down.
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Wow. I've never heard of that, but if possible, it would be an amazing feature!
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I'm on MacNN forums, but no longer have a Mac...
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Can we confirm that Steve Jobs said it would be there at WWDC?
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Art has the story correct. It was never an announced feature, it was simply a website update glitch that the media grabbed ahold of so it was spread all over the internet. Even though Apple promptly took it off the site, almost every Leopard thread, someone brings it up as if its going to be in the update. It won't.
Some logical discussion has taken place on the subject though. I believe one person mentioned that the time it would take to swap all your memory to disk, then switch to the other OS, then do it back again would be far greater than the time it takes to reboot, especially if you have say 3 to 8gb of RAM. I know this still doesn't address those would like like to keep all their apps with open documents, etc... but it is an interesting point to consider.
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Originally Posted by schalliol 
Can we confirm that Steve Jobs said it would be there at WWDC?
He never announced it.
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What it would have done is hibernated one OS, while booting the other, and then hibernate that OS to go back to the original. As you might imagine, there is big potential for file corruption there, so I think that is why it was pulled.
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