On 10/04/18 09:46, stuart noble wrote:

They boot even faster if you swap spinning rust for solid state.

Amen to that. I invested £30 and my old Dell now boots in seconds


I think i am down to 7 seconds, two of which are bios checks, and three
are setting up the desktop and X window env. post logging in.

CPU bound really, as the laptop is a lot slower.

The miost incerdible boot is Windows XP in a VM. Its about a second to
'resume' from image, and about 5 from cold.



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