The PC boot up and getting to "work" speed test

[Lindsayt]

MacBook Air 2016 14.2 seconds.
Wouldn't own anything else!

That is impressive.

I had a feeling that the fastest PC's for this test would be non-Windows ones.

But even the slowest one, so far, at 40 seconds is still fine.

We've got a 15 year old Windows XP desktop PC with a mechanical hard drive that my wife uses. I wonder how that'll fare in this test?...

[Jonty2547]

You may be in for a long evening

[zebbo]

I think it does rather depend on how many apps/programs are loaded up at boot up.

[Fretless]

My 8-years old Dell Vostro laptop took 2.08 minutes . Windows 10. Intel dual-core 2.53 GHz CPU. 4GB RAM. (not SSD !!)

[Lindsayt]

My wife's XP computer isn't quite as old as I thought. It has an Intel E6850 CPU, 4 GB Ram (think I fitted this as a later upgrade), 128GB SSD (replacement after original hard drive failed. Sorry guys, I'd totally forgotten I'd fitted this ). The CPU's original, so this must date from around 2008. I paid around £300 new for this, plus some extra for replacement bits as they broke.

First test it took 1 minute 20 secs to power up, boot, load Windows XP, load Firefox and get into this HFS thread.

With a couple of minutes of tweaking to the Bios and the programmes being loaded on startup, I got it down to 63 seconds.

It takes about 20 seconds to do the POST on powering up. Not a lot I can do to speed that up. Fast boot was already enabled. XP loads pretty quickly. And then there's an annoying delay whist the network card / network settings sorts itself out.

Still, not bad for a crappy old Windows XP PC.

[Geoff.R.G]

I very rarely power down my Macs, I simply close the lid and they go to sleep, so from sleep to signed in on the forum 2 or 3 seconds. That isn't what was asked but it is how I use my computers.

[kimangelis]

If you want your PC to boot and load a browser faster..... then load more RAM and go to a SSD if you can afford it. I run a HP Envy with a 256Gb SSD and 16Gb RAM. Boots and loads Chrome in 12 seconds. OS is Windows 10.

[applemarc]

17 seconds for my Mac Pro with 1TB SSD 24Gb ram cost alot in 2010

[Lindsayt]

This one was a challenge. I found a dusty old Dell D600 laptop that used to have Windows XP on it. This dates from 2004. I got it for free, some time ago, as a cast-off. It has an Intel Pentium M 1.6 GHZ CPU, 512 MB RAM, a 30 GB mechanical hard drive.

Initially it failed this test as it wouldn't boot thanks to a corrupt .dll file.

So I loaded CorePlus Linux, Dillo web browser and tested it at...

65 seconds!

Opera9 was better at displaying this forum than Dillo, but it was slower. Firefox ran like a beached blue whale.

If I dispensed with the GUI, fitted a new clock battery and sussed out how to use bookmarks in Dillo, I'd shave a few seconds off that time.

[scotty38]

For various reason I just changed my Linux machine back to windows 10. I haven't done this test yet but one thing I do know is that it's significantly slower to boot than Linux was....

As above from sleep Linux was 2/3 seconds Win10 is a lot more than that.