Watch: How Long It Takes to Boot Windows 8
By Erica Ho | Friday, September 9, 2011 at 11:02 am
Since I can’t turn on my laptop with the power of my mind, I guess I’ll have to live with waiting for it to boot up. You know, for eight seconds. It might be seven-and-a-half seconds too long, but since I can’t expect my phone to also cook, wash my clothes and let me travel into the future, I might have to recalibrate my expectations.
In the video above, a Microsoft employee demonstrates how fast it takes to boot up Windows 8 in a new “fast start-up” mode. And it seems pretty fast. Why hello, Emily.
Now let’s talk geek. In order to achieve “fast start-up” mode, Microsoft basically sets the computer’s kernel to hibernate, which is typical during shutdown. A cold power-off and restart would probably take a little longer—about eight seconds, the company surmises. That’s eight more you can scan the boob tube while you wait.
The faster boot time is supposed to benefit all PCs, whether you’re running an old school hard drive or a snappy SSD in your computing rig. There’s nothing available figure-wise to see whether SSDs will benefit the most, or if both types will deliver the same response times, though we expect those questions to be answered in due time.
And for all you luddites reading this, just remember: that’s only eight seconds you’ll have to be tortured by the latest episode of True Blood.
[This post republished from Techland]
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September 9th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Wow, fast boot times. That’s much more important than how well the user interface works, or how resource-intensive the operating system is, or how compatible it is with the applications we’re all using, or how secure it is from viruses and malware and other sorts of nastiness. Thank you, Microsoft, for focusing on a problem to which the rest of the world has been crying out in pain and anguish for a solution!
January 4th, 2012 at 6:10 am
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September 9th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
That was fast! I'm looking forward to trying it out. I hope it's still fast after I install lots of software and my cookies build up.
Among WinOSes, I love WinXP and Win7 but the booting times tend to make me gnash my teeth. I hope Win8 is has more things to offer aside from the fast booting time.
September 10th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Reboot speed is a red herring. And splitting hairs about "cold reboot" versus "warm reboot" is bullshit. How about talking about how long it can go before NEEDING to reboot?
September 11th, 2011 at 6:21 am
Great idea! Too bad it's not in a real world setting, and there aren't a ton of security patches and service packs installed over top of it.
I remember how XP was going to boot sooooo much faster than ME. Then Vista was supposed to be blazingly fast compared to XP. Then Vista…. well we won't even go there. Next was 7's speed increase over Vista. After 8 there will be 9 that will be touted as speedy compared to 8.
September 12th, 2011 at 9:12 am
Faster than Lion… which takes almost 80 seconds to get to the login screen. Snow Leopard does in in about :30 seconds…
September 14th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Funny, they make an improvement and all people can do is whine about it. People have an absolutely irrational hate towards Microsoft.
January 31st, 2012 at 3:40 am
Wow, fast boot times. That's much more important than how well the user interface works, or how resource-intensive the operating system is, or how compatible it is with the applications we're all using, or how secure it is from viruses and malware and other sorts of nastiness. Thank you, Microsoft, for focusing on a problem to which the rest of the world has been crying out in pain and anguish for a solution!
February 8th, 2012 at 10:35 am
Great post. I like your work. I will read more your post.
February 9th, 2012 at 2:27 am
This is really awesome if windows 8 takes 20 minutes to get boot ?
This will be new revolution in the field of technology and speed. 🙂