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Jonty2547 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 5:25 pm 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?...

You may be in for a long evening

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.