scj312 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 My iPod boots in a few seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Fastest I've ever seen was a BBC Micro that we still use sometimes in Physics at school. That thing is on instantaneously! On my Powerbook- Tiger - 55 secs Leopard - 1 min 15 secs Xubuntu - 1 min Hackintosh Leopard - 28 secs Tiger - 20 secs XP Pro SP2 - 25 secs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Casio FX 991ES - Instant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xplizid Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 16 seconds windows xp sp2. thats with services enabled no anti virus tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombiechago Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 vista 1 minute fully loaded fedora linux 30 seconds mac osx 10.4.9 5 seconds (at work ) hackintosh 10.4.9 3 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popcornballz Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Mac OSX Leopard - about 5 secondsI love leopard... Anyone know where i can find some new Leopard Icons? I have a bunch...but they're all kinda boring, and I don't really want to make my own. I mostly need Application Icons. Fastest I've ever seen was a BBC Micro that we still use sometimes in Physics at school. That thing is on instantaneously!On my Powerbook-Tiger - 55 secsLeopard - 1 min 15 secsXubuntu - 1 minHackintoshLeopard - 28 secsTiger - 20 secsXP Pro SP2 - 25 secsIsn't that kind of slow...? My Mac running OSX Leopard boots in about 5-6 seconds. I timed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eject Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 all i can say is it depends on a lot more than just the OS. with all devices in bios enabled booting a win xp sp2 needs at least 20 seconds (leopard is a little bit quicker), when i turn off al devices i never use and need (bluetooth, ir controller, sata raid controller and much more don't in my mind yet) i'm saving at least 4 or 5 seconds till the OS is starting to load an on the windows bootup i save at least another 5 seconds because there are less devices to wait for. on osx the os bootup itself isn't speedup by this it's just starting earlier with the booting process and will be usable (with mail, opera, parallels and itunes started) in under 20 seconds. thats amazing, windows can't do this. and also network connections are a lot sooner accesable then under windows, and thats really wierd, because they all are windows machines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickhamm Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 My machines: PC1 - AMD64 3400+; 1.125GB Memory; Geforce 4 Ti 4200; 7200RPM 80GB IDE HDD PC2 - Pentium 4 3.0GHz HyperThreading; 512Mb Memory; ATI x1300 Graphics; 7200RMP 80GB IDE HDD MacBookPro - Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz; 2GB Memory; GeForce 8600GT; 5400RMP 200GB SATA HDD iMac - 400MHz G3; 512Mb Memory; ATI Rage Pro; 5400RPM 15GB IDE HDD I did some (incomplete) testing and came up with the following results (Startup/Shutdown; includes POST): PC1 XP - 41s / 37s PC2 XP - 34s / 12s MacBook Pro XP - UNTIMED iMac XP - UNTESTED (Maybe VPC, some year) PC1 Vista - UNTESTED PC2 Vista - 1m20s/12s MacBook Pro Vista - 44s/12s iMac Vista - UNTESTED (Yeah, right) PC1 Mac OS Tiger - UNTESTED PC2 Mac OS Tiger - UNTESTED MacBook Pro Tiger - UNTIMED iMac Tiger - 57s/12s PC1 Mac OS Leopard - NOT COMPATIBLE PC2 Mac OS Leopard - WON'T BOOT AFTER INSTALL Macbook Pro Leopard - 58s/13s iMac Leopard - NOT COMPATIBLE Specialized OS: PC2 MicroXP (78Mb CD) - 22s/4s Ubuntu testing coming soon as well as some of the above I missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuietOC Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 My NEC Mobile Pro 900C starts pretty much instantly with Windows CE.NET 4.2. When it really boots from a soft or hard reset it takes a few seconds. I don't have to do that very often. A fresh minimum install of OS 10.4.7 on a 150GB Raptor in my 3GB equipped iMac booted quite fast. Adding back 10.4.11 and all the applications slowed it down alot. OSX seems to really suck at managing application activity (memory and storage). I used NeXTs in college which didn't seem to have much trouble running on much lesser hardware. OS 9.0.4 running under Sheepshaver takes about 15 seconds to boot on the iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QckSlvrGuyInKC Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Cold booting, my E8400 rig loads Windows XP MCE 2005 in 25 seconds, with most services enabled (including the MCE stuff) and AVG 7.5; I haven't given 10.5.1 a time run yet. The G4 loads OS X 10.5.2 in 4 minutes with the 6200 and just under 1 minute with the GF2 video card; that machine could also load OS 9.22 in 12 seconds with no extensions from cold boot, including testing 1.5 GB RAM. The fastest boot time I ever had with a disk-based GUI was Windows 3.1 on a 486-DX2/80 with 8 MB RAM (7 seconds). Fastest disk-based OS I've ever seen load was MS DOS 6.22 (no drivers or EMS) in 4 seconds, only because BIOS took 3 seconds to check RAM and drives. Nothing beats the old Atari 800XL I had from power on to usable, however - less than 1 second to a basic prompt, including startup diagnostics. (edited - added G4 info) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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