Video: SSD-infused Eee PC 1000 boots in 30 seconds
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 3rd 2008 4:06PM
posted Aug 3rd 2008 4:06PM
Even with Express Gate installed, it took ASUS' Eee Box a good 35 seconds before an application could be used. On this particular Eee PC 1000, it took around half a minute for the entire system to load. The secret? An ultra-speedy 40GB SSD packed within. Hop on past the break for proof of the feat, but don't blink for an extraordinarily long period of time.[Thanks, Roman]
my aspire one does better than this out of the box
My Styrofoam does better than this out of the box...
30 seconds is comparatively LONG.
I've tested and worked on a 16 GB Mtron 7500 SSD (the fastest out right now) on a core 2 duo based machine. XP boots faster than it takes for the progress bar to cross the screen, way faster than 30 seconds.
It takes the computer longer to POST than it does to boot windows.
And my Blue Gene/P supercomputer (884,736-processor, 216-rack cluster) can simulate protein folding much faster than the Eee PC netbook, so the netbook must be shit...
Indeed, out of the box the Aspire One boots in about 15 seconds.
FAKE! It was played at 3x speed! You can tell if you look really closely...
Yeah, it did look like that hand and the reflection of the person moved a bit fast.
EXACTLY! That is the same part I was talking about!
Agreed. That hand movement was fishy...
Edit: In half the time.
"boots in 30 seconds"
Is it a bad thing that my Vista Ultimate installation boots in 25 seconds?
That just tells us that you haven't installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader, yet.
You are right, it means he installed Foxit Reader.
Hibernate is my weapon of choice for all but the most necessary restarts.
And then people wonder why their computers crash.
Just wait til you have about 4-8GB of RAM, it'll be fun waiting for your PC to write 8GB to your hard drive.
And how often are people with 8GB memory wanting to hibernate while they have 7.5GB+ of memory in use?
I have 4GB here, and generally 0.7-1.5GB in use when hibernating, which takes around 10-15 seconds. Not too painful.
YOU ARE DUMB
Wait a minute, this is for LINUX?! I have had Windows XP boot in less time than that on old 900MHz machines. Worthless.
Yes. I wish the writers at Engadget understood technology a little better. They completely missed the actual story on the launch yesterday and apparently have little idea what a good boot time is. Why do I look to them for news?
when they do this running Vista or XP, I'll then be impressed. My Linux server at home at run level 3 starts up in less 20 secs
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard starts faster than that on a normal mechanical harddrive...
on what machine Andre`? And how much more than an eee would it cost.
try to keep things on perspective.
No posts could be sillier than those saying things like " Yeah , but my quad core extreme 4GB ddr2 with a 10000 rpm HD which I just payed 3000 USD, boots faster..."
André is right, Leopard does start faster sometimes, but the machine it starts up like that on isn't comparable to the Eee Pc.
I'm pretty sure my macbook takes more than half a min.
Waking up from sleep in OSX is lightning fast but waking up from hibernation or cold boot is comparable to Windows.
I didn't mention any specific current Mac model because they all boot Mac OS X in around 30 seconds.
10.5... 32 seconds on my MBP. It was about 27 when I had 10.4 on it.
10.5 boots in 45 ish seconds for me on my MBP and my Mini.
Doesn't matter because I hardly ever turn it off.
So this is the 10" eee with the standart "easy" Asus/xandros OS?
The same OS that is on the 7"?
If so, shouldnt that be a normal boot time, since the original 7" (dont know how it is called now) booted in under 30s.
Yea, that is a pretty pathetic boot time, considering it is booting an OS that was designed to boot nearly instantly, and it is using an SSD.
You think Xandros was designed to boot almost instantly? Where did you get that idea?
I was thinking this was Splashtop. My bad.
LOL, I thought the title said that the EE PC could boot up 1000 times in 30 seconds. lol
My Asus 901 with XP boots in about 40 seconds, and that's with AVG and Avast! installed!
well, they are probably running apache in the background, and don't know it ...
seriously though, linux is not known for it's speedy cold boots.
Why do you have two AVs installed?
Oops, I meant Avast and ZoneAlam (not AVG).
Oops. I meant Avast and ZoneAlarm (not AVG).
wait.. how hell is this news? thats about 5 secs slower than my original EEEpc and windows xp.
????
Where did you say the video was?
Bad Engadget.
There should be an option to vote up / down news stories in addition to just comments. ;)
Or the author could just respond to the complaints in the comments here, which I haven't seen happen a lot at this site actually. Sure many posters like to complain I guess, but sometimes they're actually right. :P
Clak, SuperSexyEric (^_^), and iEye would take over this site if they enabled that.
That beats my laptop's XP boot time by 10 minutes! (5 year old Pentium 2.4 ghz if you're wondering)
But I still yearn for a day when computers will boot as fast as a SuperNES.
This is news? My eee 1000H boots in 35 seconds with a hard drive and Xandros is meant too be lighter than XP.
http://www.zanerian.com/ASUSOCZ128SSD.jpg
O, and this is someone's eee 1000 with a 128Gb OCZ Core Series SSD.
i think most people on here have missed the point. its fast for an Eee PC is all they are saying, they at no point compared it to anything other then just the Eee box. everyone just calm.
My MacBookAir boots in 2 minutes, but the problem is that i don't have one.
and this is why we invented sleep mode (Vista Hybrid Sleep ftw ^^)
Whoopee!!!
30 seconds? Able to get Safari open and going with 7 seconds to spare.
Mac Pro Quad 2.8GHz.
FAIL!