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As a user of computers, I have never once felt that boot time was adequate for any device I have owned.

• pessimizer 12y ago
  As another user of computers, it's pouring if I have to boot up more than one or two groups of things a week. If it ever takes more than 3 minutes, there's something wrong with the hardware.
• colanderman 12y ago
  You must be young. Back in the good ol' days computers booted instantly. Apple ][, Commodore 64, I'm looking at you.
  • hyperpape 12y ago
    My first computer was a Mac Plus, so it appears I just narrowly missed the good ole days.
• knd775 12y ago
  My rMBP is the first device that I have used yet that I feel boots quickly enough. I mean, it's a few seconds. And that's on top of the fact that I rarely actually turn it off. SSDs are really necessary to have tolerable boot times.
• nine_k 12y ago
  I wonder why booting a computer may be a concern for a desktop user at all. With hibernation being polished enough (on Linux and elsewhere), one mostly puts a computer to sleep, then continues exactly where left. Boot times may be important for cloud instances, though; the faster you can spawn more nodes to accommodate a load spike, the better. But cloud instances are usually pretty stripped-down, and often get spawned form pre-configured images where much of the discoverable stuff is hardcoded.