Why is its 'boot time' such a selling point? Does anyone turn off their machines anyway?
E.g., in my experience, some people have been very vocally opposed to the idea of leaving computers on overnight owing to the energy wastage etc. They were all from Europe, and from precisely the same types of environments where we would usually leave our machines on permanently (eg postgrad university labs).
Not to generalize, but I wonder if (at least at that time) there was not more sensitivity to such environmental issues in Europe.
Unfortunately (at least on PCs) the suspend-resume functionality just has never seemed to work properly ...
* When I walk in the door at home, it automatically connects to my wireless access point.
* I can ssh into it or scp files to or from it using my laptop (after unsuspending the laptop and waiting for it to get back into X :-O) regardless of where it is physically.
* I use rsnapshot nightly to back it up.
* I tap on the screen and it is "instant on" because it was already on, just the backlight was off.
In short, I never turn it on, I never plug it in (other than to recharge :-()
That is the way Life Should Be (other than needing recharging).
Most people don't realize What Could Be because their computer usage paradigm (imagination) is limited by what Windows + Intel is able to do.
I daresay such users would naturally gravitate to whichever environment gets into a usable state the fastest.
I cannot remember the exact number & types of machines I've used or had provided to me at customer premises over the last few years, but I'm pretty sure its > 10. Its only ever been my MBP that wakes up consistently with everything still intact. <= 10% is a pretty poor success rate...