My work laptop - admittedly not a high-end machine - takes about two minutes from power-on to login-prompt. I've seen Windows machines - without SSDs - that had

My work laptop - admittedly not a high-end machine - takes about two minutes from power-on to login-prompt. I've seen Windows machines - without SSDs - that had tons and tons and tons of software installed on them, that took 10 to 15 minutes from power-on to login. Compared to that, <30 seconds is very fast. SSDs have been a real game-changer, though. My home desktop takes less than 10 seconds from boot manager to display manager. I used to be very patient, now I kind of regret all the time I spent waiting for some computer to boot. ;-) The C64 boots off ROM, IIRC? So that is kind of cheating. ;-) But yes, I had a C64, too, the delay between switching it on and the machine being usable was too low to notice.