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Old 05-25-2008, 08:38 AM   #84
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
You just can't have it both ways. You want it to use no power when you are not using it, but you want it to be instant on when you want to use it. I'm not sure that is possible.... even the fastest device needs some startup time.

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Of course it will need some startup time, but I believe with register context parking, they could push it to under 3 seconds. The biggest slowdown would be RAM loading, but it's not like the reader uses a whole lot of RAM... in fact, how much does it use under normal operation? Anybody?
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