boot speed matters

well, if you can select exactly what hardware you will run on, supporting that hardware gets _much_ easier than the situation with linux where it needs to work on hardware designed by others.

it's not necessarily that people want to wait weeks between times that they use their computers, but if a battery will last a week on standby, letting the system sit in standby mode uses 1/7 of your power, that's a significant amount if you aren't going to be near a power outlet.

don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to see improvements in linux power management, it's just that I don't see 'suspend' replacing 'off' as being either realistic or desirable for all cases.