Oh, come on! There is no huge performance boost. In fact, based on most properly done benchmarks, there isn't any performance boost at all! The whole "myth" of

Oh, come on! There is no huge performance boost. In fact, based on most properly done benchmarks, there isn't any performance boost at all! The whole "myth" of a performance boost probably started simply because they added a new startup mode in W8, called "Fast Startup", which is basically just partial hibernation. So even saying that it boots faster isn't correct; regular boot, sleep and hibernation are still just as fast as they were on W7.