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freethought · Joined: 13 Mar 2005

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200810/200810310005.html

That article says the following:

PC makers are in fierce competition to shorten the time it takes for computers to boot up. The New York Times on Sunday said PC manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard Dell and Lenovo are planning to showcase computers that enable users to log onto the Internet within just 30 seconds after switching on the machine. Normally, it takes four or five minutes for a PC to grind into gear

I just booted up and got online with my not top of the line macbook, that has Norton Antivirus which slows it down AND a password protect, in one minute and 4 seconds. And it's been that way since I started using a mac a few years ago.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

blackjack · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang

It takes me just over a min from pushing the start button to opening a web page with opera. and I have a dell laptop with a Mobile Pentium III 600 Mhz cpu and 512mb of ram with an illegal copy of windows xp. If you have a mac why are you running windows?

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

My PC is about 30 seconds from power off to ready-to-go in firefox...

Super sluggish compared to my 15 year old amiga though. I don't think a month goes by that I don't wish amiga had won the war.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PC's have never taken 4 minutes to boot up. Another anti-Windows myth put around by the Mac cult.

My newish PC with Vista Ultimate takes less than 20 seconds to boot up.

When will Mac users stop taking the Kool-aid.........? I mean, really.....4 minutes to boot up!!!

Oh, and being proud of the fact that your Macbook takes over 1 minute to boot up..... Laughing

......you lost the argument right away....

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

I was curious, so I just tested my boot up time. 55 seconds to get to login screen, 2:51 to open IE to its homepage. (No, I am not currently using firefox, sue me.)

For comparisons sake, I'm running a quad core 6600 with 4 gigs of ram and Vista 64 ultimate. Yep, seems kinda slow.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

2:51 until you can use internet??? That's really slow. Something must be up.

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

I have a vista laptop. Just under 1 minute to get to the login screen. Plus 40ish seconds to get the login process all completed. So, 1:40ish. I wish it were under 1 minute for the whole deal, bootup and login.

Core 2 Duo, 2G RAM, Vista 32, and 3 external drives, on an LG notebook

I_Am_The_Kiwi · Joined: 10 Jun 2008

Boot into windows time is what counts. From boot to internet browsing can slow down if youve got a bunch of apps that load themselves during startup and these will slow everything down.

Also FF usually takes a long time to start, in comparison to IE.

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

No reason why anyone's computer should take more than 1 minute to get to what you want. Check in your taskbar for starters. Anything that isn't part of windows or your antivirus - sift through the settings and disable "run on start up" or "start automatically" or whatever.

In the future make sure you don't let programs set themselves to run on startup. Doing those two things should go a long way toward fixing the issue.

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

I'm just curious about who besides me has actually timed their boot process. It's easy enough to say it seems like your PC boots quick, but I suspect that the stopwatch will tell a different story.

red_devil · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Location: Korea

Windows has always taken longer to load than Mac OS...and the only time i've found my Windows machine to be near as fast as my Mac is when i've just reinstalled Windows. A few months later after i've downloaded and updated the software and apps that i typically use, the Windows machine takes a huge drop in boot up speed.

And I call BS on the comment about FF taking less time than IE. IE is a big memory gobbling app that takes longer than FF to render pages, and up to IE7 is still much slower than FF.

EuroFunk · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: jobless in Busan

good maintenance should be able to fix a lot of slowdown problems. With affordable dual cores and other pieces of hardware, there should be little to no reason for a computer to take less than a minute to boot (maybe if you had A LOT of programs installed)....

the hibernate function works wonders as well.