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...
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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.