That's a fair question. Personally, I'm impressed with how fast my machine boots up. It's certainly better than minutes/near-minutes my old machine used to. Th

That's a fair question. Personally, I'm impressed with how fast my machine boots up. It's certainly better than minutes/near-minutes my old machine used to. The same could be said about a few milliseconds when loading a web page; but Google Chrome does really weird (but awesome!!) network adapter/caching hacks to get those few milliseconds, and many people are grateful for it. And, 5 seconds on newer machines is a lot more time on older machines. (Disclosure, since the topic is on it: Microsoft employee. The remarks are my own, not the company's, blah blah)