Sony Vaio P Boot Time
Akihabara News has timed how long it takes to boot up Sony's new Vaio Type P - 3:20 mins to a usable state.
Not surprised at all.
My MBP probably takes 1:30 mins but what I like about Macs is that they are usable just a few seconds after coming out of hibernation. Then again - my MBP is having trouble sleeping of late...
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Student
http://yellowguy89.blogspot.com/
My PC usually takes about 2-3 minutes to boot up. But I rarely turn off my PC due to the strain put on the hard drive each time it boots up.
http://www.rxsiu.wordpress.com
strain on hard drive? how so?
student
http://kuiliu.wordpress.com
I wanna know why too.
Student
http://yellowguy89.blogspot.com/
at boot up, the hard drive has to start everything up, so it spins extremely fast, thats when your hard drive strains the most because its receiving so much tasks at one time, once boot up is finished, you'll sometimes notice that your computer goes "quieter", thats due to the rpm decreasing in your hard drive. It does extremely little damage, gradually, to your hard drive and its not significant enough to turn on your PC 24/7. But...I'm on a tight budget..so I want my PC's life maxed out. I only shut down my PC for installing new hardware and maintinence.
website/graphic designer and karaoke amateur~
http://www.furudango.com
That's not a big issues these days [it was only really an issue about 7 or more years ago], actually, by leaving your computer on, you're wearing out all your other components even more so than if you were to simply turn it off.
Student
http://yellowguy89.blogspot.com/
the only other hardware that has significant ware down is the PCu, and maybe the video card if you overclock it. The other components are pretty much solid
Cook assistant
http://figuramania.blogspot.com/
Also be care full, some times (extreme) the oil can leave the ball bearings in the motor and won't be able to start up easily if they are on for too long.
I leave my pc on for months at a time, it's very rare. You can always turn on the HDD shutdown after a few hours of idling.
Programmer, Apprentice farmer
harddrives spin at constant speed, furthermore mainstream hardrives are not supposed to run 24/7, it is actually more dangerous to do so than booting up once a day or so...
Administrator
That's bullshit. HDs, for AFAICR, spin at constant speed. The noises you can hear from them are the motor noise and the clicking noise from the heads moving around. These noises whether loud or not depend on the manufacturer's designs for that generation. What you hear at boot time is actually your fans due to fan speed management system in your BIOS and chipset hasn't kicked in yet. This also depends on the motherboard though, as my motherboard fan speed management system kicks in just as I pressed the power button, unlike my computer at work.
To manage noises from HD, certain models support AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) which has three mode to select from the best performance to the most quiet or you can turn it off for the best performance without acoustic management. What it does is to slow down the the heads, IOW you will have worst seek time for quieter HD. You can find free software on the net to do this for you.
What damage HD at bootup and shutdown is heat expansion and shrinking which HDs nowadays is not really sensitive to as long ago.
As for air cooling system being loud, I managed a few servers and at start up they're as loud as a tank >_<. The other system I manage is a small cluster (bunch of 1U server with small fans that spin at around a little over 10000RPM), the damn thing sounds just as sweet as a jet engine.
bum,hachi roku driver
^ agreed. didn't know that 10K RPM drives would sound nice like that though :D
must be cool to hear it up close.
Administrator
I meant the fans in these cluster nodes, not the HDs. As for the typical high RPM HDs out there (10K or 15K RPM), interface (SCSI, SAS or Fibre Channel) is irrelevant, they're not that loud compared to the type of computers they're attached to.
Yup. You are so right. Thus, I always put my laptop to sleep. I haven't turned it off since I bought it (around 3 years). I also have my 6 PCs at home ON all the time or I put them to sleep. never shut down a PC
Student
http://www.stefkov.com/
At a guess 2-3 minutes. I'm usually occupying myself elsewhere whilst it's booting up.
My motherboard does have a bit of software though that allows me to go on the internet, skype, and do some other minor things without having to boot up everything. This pops up in about a minute, maybe less.
Looking for Work
That'd be Splashtop I think! That's actually a really handy implementation in Windows based computers.
otaku? lol
http://www.thebanzaieffect.com
i suppose u have an asus motherboard? they have this feature- expressgate or something. boot into linux environment before windows in just 5-8seconds.
pretty handy if u just wanna surf the net or skype.
Looking for Work
I don't have a Windows computer, lol. I'm a Mac user but I look into other PC products to see if anything catches my eye. I just recently heard about Splashtop whilst looking into this HP Laptop designed by Voodoo DNA!
Student
http://www.stefkov.com/
Yeah, I have an Asus P5Q-E. I think it's called express gate. It sounds really useful but if I turn on my computer I might aswell use its full potential, and so that I can use Opera.
Looking for Work
So glad I am primarily a Mac User with extremely fast boot times =]
Young Grasshopper
http://miragestrike.blogspot.com
Not surprising at all seeing that lil midget carring Vista xD. Hopefully it'll get better when Windows 7 will be released.
As for me, it takes around a 30secs for me to get on my desktop with Vista installed; because of my quad core processor and 4GB RAM ^^;.
Freelance Illustrator
http://furudango.com
Yeah, got a quad core too but only have 2 gigs of ram at the moment, but it's one of the best value CPU for Vista.
Scientist, unemployed.
http://fmphoenixhawk.livejournal.com
I watched someone start Win 7, and it booted in about a minute and a half tops. This was in a virtual PC set with 2 Gigs of RAM. I was pleasantly surprised.
Consultant/Programmer
Actually, I noticed that virtual Windows installations often run faster than their "real" counterparts, especially when using a linux machines with a lot of RAM as a host (thanks to caching). That said, on my 8GB desktop, the 2GB Win7 VM indeed feels faster/a lot more response than my "main" 2GB WinXP VM.
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
http://meimi132.wordpress.com/
I'm not actually sure... cos I don't usually turn my laptop off, I just shut the lid lol. Takes less than 30 seconds or so to log in and be usuable I thinks. My desktop... I'm not sure... 1-2 mins start up? It's pretty quick.
Student
http://www.lesterho.com
30 seconds for my laptop.
Sony Vaio P cost about 79800 Yen and the function were better than others but the boot is quite slow due it's operation on Vista. That is why it is so slow on booting.
Service desk support
http://lookingglass.kokidokom.net
around 2~3 minutes to boot from a cold state for my PC running windows 7. Less than a minute if it's asleep but I tend not to use hibernate mode much.
and comparing boot times of a vaio P and an MBP is kinda unfair, don't you think? esp since the poor thing is running vista on top of it's not exactly powerful specs...
Service desk support
http://lookingglass.kokidokom.net
Oh, and I forgot to mention that, since I'm dual booting, my MBR asks what OS I want to run, which adds an extra 30 seconds to the boot time, so if you count that out, it's probably around 2 minutes bootup tops, with all my apps started as well. pretty good for what isn't exactly a powerhouse PC (Athlon64 3200+, GeForce 6600 and 2GB of RAM)
Yeah, I could skip the boot thing by staying around my PC, but I usually fire it up, do something else and then come back.
Student
Three minutes? o_o That's ridiculous... My laptop is kind of slow because I have all this stuff on it but my desktop I recently upgraded is pretty fast. Probably boots Windows XP in somewhere between 30 seconds to 1 min.
IT monkey/consultant
I had problems with my MBP sleeping... Sometimes it wouldn't, and no matter what it would take a long time.
I don't know if it is related to your issue, but my problem is identified here: http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/10/fixing_macbook_pro_sleep_problems.shtml
I fixed it with this utility:
http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Thanks for this - just installed. My problem is I get black screen after opening the lid - 100% of the time.
IT monkey/consultant
Glad it was of help!
I had the black screen problem, but only part of the time. Fixed after deleting the sleep memory and changing the sleep mode. It appears many others pegged that as the core of their black screen problems to, as I ascertain from the replies to what user clemson47 had to say on this thread helpful: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1478474
Of course, SmartSleep can take care of most of that (deleting the sleep memory and changing the mode) for you.
If that doesn't work, I would suspect hardware failure.
Benevolent dictator of a Banana Republic
Danny, are you using the manufacturer's video drivers or some official (ex. from Nvidia/ATI website) version? Sometimes, for example with Vaio laptops, the drivers provided by Sony or the vendor, include unofficial (as in Sony-specific) modifications to make ACPI (involved in sleep/hibernation process among other things like power management, etc) work, usually with closing the lid or whatever hibernation/sleep options you have set.
If you use unofficial or not supported drivers and they lack power management/ACPI support for your *specific* chipset and other components... a black screen on resume is a quite common symptom.
On OS X it should be fine, report the issue to Apple via Radar or send them a support request, phone them or something else. Don't send them a dolphin-in-a-box, tho!
Hope it helps.
Webdev, internet contents, music
http://www.pepinismo.net/
People: don't just count the time it takes for the system to boot. We're adding the login + user's startup stuff here too.
Would like to know how smooth this Vaio is at sleeping and waking up.
Your local Otaku Cashier.
Mine takes maybe two minutes. I should probably clean it up a bit and defrag it.
http://darkdam.deviantart.com/
Let see, my laptop with visit running on 2 ghz with 1 gb of ram with vista took over 5 minutes to boot up to a usable state, where as my pc with xp running on 2.0 ghz with 2 gb ram takes about 1 minutes and the pc with dual core takes 30 secs. So if you were to downgrade to xp, it'll probably be fast.
???Confused???
Start up time is pretty slow for me...well it's mostly due to the update of my anti virus...
houkouonchi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/red_mango/
It would probably boot faster without the Sony crapware loaded onto Vista.
College Freshmen
A minute to two at a guess. Probably has something to do with all the crap I have in it.
Procrastinator, n00b blogger
http://zatsudan.wordpress.com
I optimized my Windows XP so that my desktop can be fully operational in 18 seconds. It was a pain in the butt to do all the tweaking stuff =S
bum,hachi roku driver
how did you do that? i managed to get only 30 secs with xp.
Engineering Student
http://www.flickr.com/photos/turkguy19/
It takes about a min to get to the Login Screen, then about 2 min to start my desktop because I have a lot of programs set to start up automatically.
pervert
my pc takes about 2-4 minutes.it is kind of old but i doubt getting new parts is going to change much
i want to get a mac after using it in the college library but it doesnt justify its heavy price tag even with my student discount
Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
http://loli1983.wordpress.com
My PC takes about 1 minute and a half. I'll time it next time.
Technical Account Manager
http://howdoyoufigure.wordpress.com
I'm in the 1-2 minute range with Win7 on my main machine. Though it seems that it's about that amount of time for most of my computers, except my work laptop which spends a longer than usual amount of time in the POST screen. That and BitLocker causes it to wait for a prompt before the OS will even load...
But yes, main computer is under 2 minutes to Win7. Quad Core and 8GB of RAM certainly helps, methinks. As does a relatively quick hard drive.
Developer/Student
http://threedeecomplex.wordpress.com/
My Vista 64 boots in seconds because I'm running the OS off of a solid state drive.
911 Emergency Services
Yeah SSD is the way to go, mine boots up quite fast as well.
I think the BIOS POST time is equally as long as the actual boot time for the OS... lol.
Student
http://andreijournal.blogspot.com
Mine's 7 minutes. LOL, considering the old parts of it, and the years old it stands. But, this was my partner so I'm fine with this. Not bad also to take offer of newer ones. :D
Student!
http://zh3us.wordpress.com/
X_X mine boots in 40+ secs on a 2.66GHz Duo and Single channel DDR2 667 2GB RAM *_* wana see what will happen after i get my 1064 DDR2 Dual channels after the lunar new year when the red packets come in ^^
Student!
http://zh3us.wordpress.com/
hmmmmm... any1 with a velociraptor to report boot times?
Student
I just timed mine because I was curious. My laptop takes just under a minute. I'm happy with that. Its funny though because my parents computer probably takes 10 minutes to turn on. They have mcafee and other other software like that, that I think slows it down.
Student!
http://zh3us.wordpress.com/
Regedit for the win!!
I paint F/A-18C's
When I got my Q1 a couple years ago (samsung, keyboardless, 7" touchscreen, 1Ghz, 1GB RAM) I actually went out of my way to get the older model that did not have vista...
Student
My vista 32bit laptop boots to the login screen in 35-55 seconds then takes another 15 seconds to login and load the desktop. Vista isn't too bad. Windows 7 64bit took a bit shorter but that I timed that with a fresh install.
Blogger, consultant
http://www.netharuka.com
I don't understand how some of you guys can stand 2-3 minute boot up times. Laptop running on Ubuntu - I pitch a fit it's not up by 30 seconds.
bum,hachi roku driver
^ a properly maintained laptop with xp can boot up pretty quick too. Im running a sripped down os though, which boots up in 40 secs. yeah i agree with you on booting up times(im impatient).
Aspiring Game desinger/Author
http://azureyazoo.blogspot.com
Takes about 20 secs since I got it about a month ago.
Student
http://renegadearmy.net
depends on what os im booting into, Vista proably but over a min considering bios takes almost 30 seconds... it just holds there.. i dont know why...
ubuntu would be just over 45 seconds.
my netbook dows xp in just over a minute aswell and my other laptop does ubuntu is about 20 seconds and vista in about 45.
Mechanical Engineering student
http://sabekujikaneda.multiply.com/
My desktop boots up for 2-3 minutes. Well, I guess it expected. My motherboard is kinda old, it's running on Pentium 4 with around 512mb RAM and a hell lot of programs installed. Gotta get myself a new machine or at least upgrade my desktop -_-
Mechanical Engineering student
http://sabekujikaneda.multiply.com/
My desktop boots up for 2-3 minutes. Well, I guess it expected. My motherboard is kinda old, it's running on Pentium 4 with around 512mb RAM and a hell lot of programs installed. Gotta get myself a new machine or at least upgrade my desktop -_-
otaku? lol
http://www.thebanzaieffect.com
sometimes it is just not about upgrading or getting a new rig but more of maintaining your pc (startup progrs, cleanup, defrag.etc)
otaku? lol
http://www.thebanzaieffect.com
the hdd for vaio p is 4200rpm, aint it ? prolly one of the main factors for such a bootup time
bum,hachi roku driver
also the OS is another factor itself cause vista is a resource hog, for computers with less muscle, it becomes obvious and bloatware that comes from sony also contributes to the embarrassing boot time(netbooks are supposed to be convenient to use not a chore).
http://hostile.1up.com/
I recently got a free laptop from my father, a Sony VAIO VGN-NS140E/W, and it certainly was really bad at start-up. All it took to get it to load quickly was to get rid of all of the Sony specific programs that load at start-up.
Security Consultant
http://cansecwest.com
What the articles don't tell you is that while it boots and hibernates slowly under Vista (the times nearly halve on Windows7) the machine sleeps and wakes nearly instantly. check your power settings on lid action and move that to sleep instead of hibernate i advice. typing this on it... real world battery life ~2 hours... cheers, --dr
Student
Mine laptop takes about 10 minutes to boot. It is unbearable!
thousand master II, Internet Learner, Auto didacta
http://pipopaz.wordpress.com/
well it really depends. When i have the pc full of programs and files it takes longer, that is almost always >.<
IT
http://nails.otaku.jp
After configuring vista to use all 4 cores during the boot process, and fully optimizing my vista msconfig, my computer boots in 10 seconds to usable state after post.
bum,hachi roku driver
that's fast as hell:D so quad cores are big improvement over dual cores, pretty cool.
NEET part-time - Technical Support Officer - Network security engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
my machine takes 4mins to boot in and 1-2mins to log in into a stable state
i enabled a load of system checking because i'm paranoid.....^^;
Student / Wannabe Artist
http://tsundereworks.wordpress.com
my MBP takes a minute and a half, but because of all the crap i got on it. i dual boot windows, and it takes around 40 seconds. but even so, my old computer, which is 10 years old and running windows 2K, takes only 35 seconds, wow. >_<
looks like the sony p is taking long becuase of all the startup crap... it only takes a minute to get to the desktop...
security/3d graphic artist
http://www.kennethleishman.com/
my xp desktop.. 1 minute to useable, especially if i kill the startup crap, my lap top... 3-4 min.. :( running vista on 1 GB ram... REALLY need to upgrade to 2 GB.... >_<
Dance Trooper: DCX-001 O.D.E. (Order of the Dancing Empire)
http://dannychoo.com.my
3min+? that's long.....well, running on Intel Atom.........
Student
http://chappypyon.wordpress.com/
My desktop needs more than 4 mins to boot to stable state. =.=''' Those background programs are taking a long time. For my desktop, more than 4 mins as well. Vista.
Web Design & Development
http://www.nerdculture.org
It takes my main computer about 20 seconds to start and my laptop takes about 10-15 seconds.
Photography, Videography
Good lord your MBP takes that long to boot? How big is your list of log in items?! Mine took 46 seconds last time I checked.
Student
http://twitter.com/minimumspecs
Yeah, that is much more in line with my MBP boot time as well.
Government Goon
Sony should've went with Windows XP for this netbook. Another goofed up Sony product....
Hmm, maybe I'll check to see how long my PC takes to start up. Course it's not optimized and I probably could disable some processes during startup.
Student
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dramacd/
My desktop boots into XP very quickly. I only use it for gaming so it doesn't have any of the clutter you get on a normal-use computer.
Everything
http://www.happysoda.com
It takes about 3 minutes for my VAIO to finish loading all the background stuff and be usable with XP. It used to be very quick, like less than a minute, but it's three years old now and could probably use some cleaning up to get it to run more efficiently. Hibernate took less than a minute as did coming out of hibernation.
Lazyass human
http://nipah.wordpress.com
I find overall performance very important, not just boot time. Unfortunately, my computer is suffering a bit of graphic issues, other than that, RAM-wise I'm fine. Processor's dual-core 2.4gHz which is quite ok for now. XP SP3 is definitely better than Vista :P
website/graphic designer and karaoke amateur~
http://www.furudango.com
Pentium 4 1.60ghz, 1gb generic ram, XP Pro sp3: 2mins and 25 secs to boot up to a usable state, xD
I played around with the startup programs via msconfig, and got rid of most visual effect for increased performance :3 I also do an adware check, scandisk and defrag every one or 2 months.
I want to upgrade sometime this year though as I have to shut down firefox in order to use photoshop without having both crawl orz
Business Student
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/jyy1984
Hmmmm Takes 3mins and 20sec?? Wow....How bout...Open...grab a niishinn noodle, pour hot water, wait for three mins...after that ready to watch some eros with noodle to eat. =)
大学生
http://justaskeikaku.net23.net
Can't believe they put Vista on a piece of crap like that. Probably Vista Basic too which is not that much different from XP
Love my Core2 Quad even though its only 2.4Ghz <3
Student
http://justobserving.wordpress.com/
Wow. I can't remember my Macbook taking more than a minute or two.
Engineering and Sales
My desktop I never turn off so 0 wait lol. My laptop I always suspend so about 5 seconds. My work computer about 8 minutes cause of all the stupid bloated security crap.
Injured
My core2 duo has a 1 trigabite hdd and bought Nortons 2008 and also has a few more accessory programs for defense like peer guardian and a startup program by Sysintenals pagedefrag, plus I turn off the modem as well when I am done so it has to boot up that too. In about 3 and 1/2 minutes I can fully use it. Thats not bad at all. Also have 4 gigs of 6600 SLI ram working with the SLI video card.
University's Slave
I'd say mine probably takes 40 to 50 seconds from first push of the power button to open and usable programs, give or take a bit depending how quick on the draw I am to put in my password. ^^; I still wander off after hitting the power button like I did with my ancient Windows which definitely took about 4 minutes to boot completely. God, that thing was pathetic. Saving a small photoshop file took so long, I swear I could go take a shower and come back and it still wouldn't be done. I am SO glad I was finally able to replace it with a Mac.
Pseudo-Graphic Designer, 触手 wrangler, H-Man
http://lightningsabre.blogspot.com/
Ugh... I need to either clean up my computer or get a new one cuz the voting option for my time is not up there... It's about 5 minutes for a good functional usage of the desktop.
Student
http://nauxolo.awardspace.com/
1,5 minutes here.. and this is amongst the fastest for a desktop i've ever owned.
IT
http://nails.otaku.jp
You can just toss Windows 7 on it later this year, and it will probably run awesome. Windows 7 supposedly runs faster on Eee PCs thans XP does.
Nandeyane~
http://www.youtube.com/user/Jollepoker
I bet it's because it's using Windows Vista.
freelancer, Spanglish speaker
http://www.changolion.com
my desktop pc boots in 50 to 60 seconds, and my old (very old) laptop boot in 2:30 min, I like the desing of the Vaio Type P but it would not buy it, the acer aspire one has quite decent spects and cost less.
student, part-time NEET
*Windows Vista logo pops up* Well THERE'S your problem! Silly Sony putting such a bloated OS on a netbook.
My desktop used to take less than a minute to boot, but lately, I've been lazy about disk defrags and cleanups so maybe 2 minutes now. I need to start putting all my game/anime folders on my new HDD.
Programming Student
http://greendiscord.blogspot.com/
using vista, and it takes my laptop under 1 minute to fully boot.
my desktop however is kinda cranky and take around 5 or more minutes to fully boot (using XP)
1-2 minutes for pc and 1 minutes for my brother MAC. wow thats along time 3 minutes 20 second !!
JR. College Student
http://npc.talkingincircles.net/
I think that guy was kind of tainting the results... there's no reason to wait for all those task bar icons/programs to load. I can use my crappy PC perfectly fine while they load, it's not part of the OS. Not to mention it looks like he waits for the browser to 404 before stopping the clock - WTF? This is not such a bad boot time for something that small running vista...
Yea I don't like Sony laptops either, but if you're going to make a technical point do it right.
bum,hachi roku driver
what are you talking about? It shouldn't be running vista in the first place, Microsoft did extend the life of windows xp so less powerful computers can be more responsive from the lighter less bloated OS.
JR. College Student
http://npc.talkingincircles.net/
What are YOU talking about, it's clearly running Windows Vista and I'm complaining how Akihabara news conducted this test. I don't care what it SHOULD be running, I care about how they conducted this test. Well... only to an extent...
bum,hachi roku driver
^ Well Vista shouldn't be on that laptop anyway, even if the test was poorly conducted, it still was a pretty slow laptop regardless that and sony laptops are crap I'd rather buy a laptop made in the U.S. cause you get more for your value don't you agree......oohh btw srry for misunderstanding your post.
Graphic Designer
That's MAD!
YaY for my mac.
:o)
Messaging specialist
http://saturdaymorningrobots.lithiumstate.nl/
lol. I`m quite surprised at the " yay mac " responses to an article of a slow booting Vaio P.
Im not defending the Vaio P here, cause I too think that it should have been something alot better than that and not worth the hype - but let`s be realistic here people.
The Vaio P uses 1.8 inch HDD which runs no faster than 3800rpm. tough Sony would have probably tweaked the speed down just like in their TZ series to be even lower.
The performance is horrible and slow, yet power effecient and small enough to put in these kind of devices.
It is **no way** comparable to a 2.5 inch HDD in a MBP , or a regular MAC for that case.
Thus, having this long a boot time - especially with Vista, comes as no surprise but it`s
hardly because of "OS superiority" cause for example my Main desktop uses mostly UW320 SCSI drives on 15.000 RPM aside from my local storage drive at 10K (the rest is on an external NAS)
which runs XP to a usable state in 15 seconds.
Does that make XP that great an OS and beat my stick on MBP guys with 1 1/2 minutes ?
Nope. It`s purely hardware at it`s work.
College Student
Hear, hear!
Lover of Akiba!
http://vincentosshrine.com/
My desktop takes about 1~2 mins...
Using WinVista with DC 3.0GHz and 4GB of RAM (64 bits Windows Ultimate)
Student and full-time otaku
Damn that's slow. My XP machine takes about 1 min to boot, or 15 seconds out of standby. 3.20 isn't workable imo
student desu
More than 4 mins orz
wah T_T
Security Consultant
http://cansecwest.com
Sony VAIO P boot time under windows 7 0:57... to login prompt ... time until useable (including boot) 1:23 ... its not bad once you use win7 and remove the sony preload goo.
cheers,
--dr
Writer
"Sony preload goo" lol. Perfect description. I removed it all as well, but I must admit it irritates me a little that it was there to start with. Endless crap that only ensures I will never by another Sony. It's just too maddening to buy a new computer and then take hours to make it work right.
~Undine~
http://bluebluewave.wordpress.com
I'm under a minute cold boot to usable state on my Akari-chan (equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 2GB DDR2 PC5300, Samsung 7200rpm 32MB cache Spinpoint F1 750GB).
She runs Mandriva Linux 2009 Gnome. (The KDE4 version booted even faster though.)
Poet (not)
On my main machine (C2D E7200@3.2GHz, 3GB DDR2-800 RAM, WD WD2500KS HDD, Vista Ultimate 32-bit)
From cold boot to:
- login screen -> 45s
- usable desktop -> 1m25s
- usable internet -> 2m+ (blame it on my slow router)
Poet (not)
For the Linux users, are you using the new ext4 filesystem? Seems to perform better than ext3 in many ways:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-Boots-in-21-4-Seconds-101885.shtml
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/
Network Engineer
http://www.aggitan.blogspot.com/
I don't use EXT4 yet. I normally wait until an all around update to do things like that. Once Ubuntu 9.04 comes out I'll use it.
~Undine~
http://bluebluewave.wordpress.com
No, using ext3 here. Will see when ext4 becomes stable and standard in distros. ^^
Half Engineer, Half Student, All Robot
http://discombobulatedyouth.blogspot.com/
I think just went stable in last kernel version (2.6.28).
Student
http://konadora.wordpress.com
Mine's overclocked, so kinda fast. Around 20 seconds :D
discovering gravity and some other stuff.
http://retrovsmass.blogspot.com
That's slow =o Mine take about less then a minute ^^
Med student
mine took about 35-45sec(average)to fully boot up.
Administrator
Mine is a Vista 64bit with a Core 2 Duo E4300 at 1.8G default speed and 3GB of RAM. Boot to login screen is under 30sec and to usable state should be quite under 1mins, around 40s. How fast a Windows machine boot depends on how you manage it, same for linux but I only use them under console mode.
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I think 1-1,5mins is the maximum time a systemboot should take, but over 3 mins? not acceptable
same reason I think it's ridiculous that everyone is so hyped up about netbooks now, it's like going back in time.
back to celeron days 10 years ago..
Student, part-time Haruhi wannabe (that bit about godhood etc)
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3.2 minutes? That's probably longer than my ancient desktop's startup time.
Nurse
It's frustrating that a computer takes any time to load at all nowadays. We live in the future after all. I won't be impressed with computers again until they load much faster and have less errors.
Student during the day, otaku at night, and amateur musician ^_^
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About a minute or so for me..
Pretty fast, considering that my old PC takes about 3 minutes more..
Pre-U Student
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It depends on what you install in your OS. The more software(registry entries) there is, the longer it takes for the computer to boot up. Doesn't even matter if you have the latest Core i7 or whatever processor.
I have an old P4 PC and it only takes less than a minute to boot up XP. Of course, the only stuff installed in that computer are web browsers and microsoft office stuff =p
Even my C2D PC takes longer to boot up than it ^^;
Student
My Fujitsu-Siemens laptop takes a little less than a minute to boot up, fast enough for me. But I mostly use sleep or hibernate and that is faster.
i have an old pentium4 1.8ghz pc and it takes 38 sec to boot up lol, and the rest takes less than a minute too, its just defrag and disable useless services.....
Student & Game Designer
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love sony, hate vaio
I had to install a new vaio the other day. A performance giant !
to install vista and to boot up in general, it takes like FOREVER
insane.
College Student/Web Designer
Vaio does come with lot of pre-loaded crap. Lucky they offer a "Vaio Uninstaller" now on their website, that list what you need to keep for button & driver functionality and what is crapware that can be uninstalled.
College Student/Web Designer
My PC running Vista takes about a minute to load up, while my laptop using Windows 7 Beta only takes 30 seconds at most. I can't wait for Windows 7 to officially come out so I can put that on both of them ^^i
IT Student
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My new desktop(vista basic) take about 1min but laptop(vista premium) take more than 3 min
Student artist
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I config my computer to but within 30sec
Half Engineer, Half Student, All Robot
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This totally depends on your definition of usable. For example, I can load up my kernel pretty fast (custom linux kerneld, not many run commands, statically configured interfaces, etc.) and drop me to a shell in about 10-15 seconds. At that point, I can surf the web, play music, instant message, send e-mail, burn CDs, pretty much anything I usually do without even starting Xorg.
Grocery Store Clerk
Mine bots up in less that 2 minutes. Mine is brand new. Just go it today.
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my windows vista takes a min or 2. usually i turn it on and go do something else like have dinner, take a shower etc, when i come back i'm really to go online.
.NET/Web Developer
http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net
I read over engadget that vista on the vaio p really does take a long time to boot up but with windows 7 it was significantly faster. Vista is really a resource hog so I wouldn't be surprised about the performance especially on a netbook/ultraportable.
Otaku Programmer/Gamer/Artist/Photographer
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WOOOW DAMN all my comps in my house do abut 10-30 seconds of boot time XD gahh
i feel sory for ppl over a minute T__T
Engineer
http://philabong.webs.com/
Man, and I was thinking of getting one of these P-Series Vaio too. Maybe next year if they continue improving it, increase the HDD or SSD size and have either Windows XP or Windows 7. Heck if it didn't have Windows Vista, I think that would've made it much more attractive.
student, ventilation fitter
my comp boots in under 30sec
fully usable state in 45sec-1 min
Pianist
Somehow...I feel that people have been underestimating their computers' boot time. If you count from the point where you press the power button, my computer is fully usable at around 1.5 minutes. My netbook usually takes about 2 minutes (and it's an eee pc 700 series, so much, much slower than the sony above).
I basically got to the "pick your OS" screen after at least 30-40 seconds after I pressed the power button.