Video: SSD-infused Eee PC 1000 boots in 30 seconds
By Darren Murph 
posted August 3rd 2008 4:06PM
posted August 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]
Wooooaaaah... time is CRITICAL.
so does my macbook and a dell xps my friend bought
Hello My name is Roman
I'm an author of this video and proud owner of Asus EEE PC 1000. First of all i want to assure all reader of Engadget.com that this video was not played faster than it was recorded Same Speed.Secondly this video to show you how fast this laptop is to other equivalent laptops not to your Quad or Dual cores or even computer running with same specs. Why you say because it is a computer not a laptop.There are computers that way faster and better that you have at home:)It does have Adobe Reader 7. to those people who say that their EEE pc runs Windows XP and boots in 35 seconds Well because it was changed by Windows corp to even work on Asus EEE pc so called stripped version.I hope i have addressed all you concerns and comments
Thank you
Who would have guessed your Eee PC boot-up video would generate such a heated response, especially amongst defensive Mac owners...
I don't think Apple cares too much about Mini at this point of time anyway.
I don't think Apple cares too much about Mini at this point of time anyway.
Time to get a Mac Pro if you really want fast boot up time.
I'm still waiting for OSes to utilize SSDes to the point of 'instant-on'. I actually was under the impression that it was already. Glad I found this out before I bought my next pc.
No offense, but my old Pentium 4 powered computer with 512 MB RAM boots xp faster than this. And is that even Windows that the Eee PC booted into?
Ummm... so this must mean that my Celeron D XP server that boots in 20 seconds is fast...
and my 2.8 Pentium D running Vista boots in about 35 seconds is also fast...
I don't think I've owned a machine (computer or otherwise) that took 30 seconds to boot in about 10 years.
Something in the vid (other than the kinda fast-ish hand) tells me that it might have been showing at 2x the speed. After the screen "Starting System" shows it seems as though that everything runs extraordinarily fast.
Well other than that I'm not sure what to get for a netbook yet... I'm uneasy about which company, although I'd prefer Dell and Asus but Lenovo is peeking out into the netbook industry.. who knows?
Cheers,
Nick
Did anyone else misread the title as "Eee PC - 1000 boots in 30 seconds" i.e. it boots 1000 times in 30 seconds? I was like "DAYUM!"
Eee PC - DUMB OVERUSED BRAND NAME FAIL