Video: SSD-infused Eee PC 1000 boots in 30 seconds

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]

[peter @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:11PM]

my aspire one does better than this out of the box

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:13PM]

My Styrofoam does better than this out of the box...

[nerdtalker @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:23PM]

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.

[LondonConsultant @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:47PM]

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...

[MarkP @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:04PM]

Indeed, out of the box the Aspire One boots in about 15 seconds.

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:12PM]

FAKE! It was played at 3x speed! You can tell if you look really closely...

[JR @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:18PM]

Yeah, it did look like that hand and the reflection of the person moved a bit fast.

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:21PM]

EXACTLY! That is the same part I was talking about!

[slimy33 @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:24PM]

Agreed. That hand movement was fishy...

[peter @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:12PM]

Edit: In half the time.

[Bryant @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:17PM]

"boots in 30 seconds"

Is it a bad thing that my Vista Ultimate installation boots in 25 seconds?

[weg @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:20PM]

That just tells us that you haven't installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader, yet.

[poulan @ Aug 3rd 2008 7:32PM]

You are right, it means he installed Foxit Reader.

[Samboini @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:18PM]

Hibernate is my weapon of choice for all but the most necessary restarts.

[Pochi @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:21PM]

And then people wonder why their computers crash.

[Ignatius @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:16PM]

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.

[Synergy6 @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:43PM]

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.

[Pochi @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:20PM]

YOU ARE DUMB

[Pochi @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:22PM]

Wait a minute, this is for LINUX?! I have had Windows XP boot in less time than that on old 900MHz machines. Worthless.

[peter @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:28PM]

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?

[Tohe @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:54PM]

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

[André @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:29PM]

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard starts faster than that on a normal mechanical harddrive...

[KilgoreTrout @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:48PM]

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..."

[Conor Kirkpatrick @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:01PM]

André is right, Leopard does start faster sometimes, but the machine it starts up like that on isn't comparable to the Eee Pc.

[Ethan @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:12PM]

I'm pretty sure my macbook takes more than half a min.

[zerocalories @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:36PM]

Waking up from sleep in OSX is lightning fast but waking up from hibernation or cold boot is comparable to Windows.

[André @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:07PM]

I didn't mention any specific current Mac model because they all boot Mac OS X in around 30 seconds.

[gittenlucky @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:39PM]

10.5... 32 seconds on my MBP. It was about 27 when I had 10.4 on it.

[OziD @ Aug 4th 2008 12:25AM]

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.

[qwert @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:40PM]

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.

[0megapart!cle @ Aug 3rd 2008 4:50PM]

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.

[JR @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:08PM]

You think Xandros was designed to boot almost instantly? Where did you get that idea?

[0megapart!cle @ Aug 4th 2008 1:22AM]

I was thinking this was Splashtop. My bad.

[grull27 @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:00PM]

LOL, I thought the title said that the EE PC could boot up 1000 times in 30 seconds. lol

[Joe @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:20PM]

My Asus 901 with XP boots in about 40 seconds, and that's with AVG and Avast! installed!

[urandom @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:43PM]

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.

[Synergy6 @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:46PM]

Why do you have two AVs installed?

[Joe @ Aug 3rd 2008 7:01PM]

Oops, I meant Avast and ZoneAlam (not AVG).

[Joe @ Aug 3rd 2008 7:03PM]

Oops. I meant Avast and ZoneAlarm (not AVG).

[seamonkey420 @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:30PM]

wait.. how hell is this news? thats about 5 secs slower than my original EEEpc and windows xp.

????

[Travis @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:29PM]

Where did you say the video was?

Bad Engadget.

[Lionheart @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:39PM]

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

[neofolklore @ Aug 4th 2008 8:20AM]

Clak, SuperSexyEric (^_^), and iEye would take over this site if they enabled that.

[Kevin @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:47PM]

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.

[ilh @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:50PM]

This is news? My eee 1000H boots in 35 seconds with a hard drive and Xandros is meant too be lighter than XP.

[ilh @ Aug 3rd 2008 5:53PM]

http://www.zanerian.com/ASUSOCZ128SSD.jpg

O, and this is someone's eee 1000 with a 128Gb OCZ Core Series SSD.

[Gord099 @ Aug 4th 2008 12:01PM]

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.

[Crooked Style @ Aug 3rd 2008 6:08PM]

My MacBookAir boots in 2 minutes, but the problem is that i don't have one.

[MMaster23 @ Aug 3rd 2008 7:21PM]

and this is why we invented sleep mode (Vista Hybrid Sleep ftw ^^)

[Bryan @ Aug 3rd 2008 8:17PM]

Whoopee!!!

30 seconds? Able to get Safari open and going with 7 seconds to spare.

Mac Pro Quad 2.8GHz.


FAIL!