How long does it take for your laptop to boot?

That's right! Get those stop watches out and let's see.

I keep hearing about long boot times... like seven minutes That doesn't sound right. Please, post how long it takes for your system to boot and your specs.

1. Model (i.e. T61)

2. Operating System (Vista 32, Vista 64, or XP)

2. Processor (i.e. T7500)

3. RAM (i.e. 2GB, 1 stick, 667mhz)

4. Hard Drive (i.e. 7200RPM 100GB)

5. Turbo Memory - yes/no

6. Factory Install? or Clean Install?

 

T61, xp, t7300, 2g ram, 7500rpm, no turbo, factory,

1 minute to log in screen

another minute to open up internet explorer

total = 2 min

 

With factory settings, the boot time and shut down times were amazingly fast, about 2 minutes max. But after I installed a bunch of my own stuff and deleted a bunch of preloaded stuff, the boot time and shut down time slowed down a lot.


1. Model (i.e. T61)
T60p

2. Operating System (Vista 32, Vista 64, or XP)
Vista Ultimate 32bit

2. Processor (i.e. T7500)
T7600

3. RAM (i.e. 2GB, 1 stick, 667mhz)
3GB

4. Hard Drive (i.e. 7500RPM 100GB)
160GB 5400 RPM

5. Turbo Memory - yes/no
No

6. Factory Install? or Clean Install?
Factory install, about 2 minutes max

 

boot/shut down time:
1 minute 25 seconds not lying call it dale JR of computers
dell Inspiron 1501
windows XP media center edition
AMD Turion MK-36 2 GHz
1 GB Ram
60 GB HDD

mines from startup-login-firefox-www.notebookreview.com in bookmarks super fast

i had trouble all the time with this system at first then i used the XPMCE reinstall disc and reinstalled the os took 2 minutes before that to boot(still though compared to my old desktop dell Running W98, 64 MB RAM, pentium 2or3 at 500 MHz!)30 secs for that

 

It takes 50 Seconds from Lenovo to Login Screen, and 30 seconds until Firefox opens.

1. Model: T61

2. Operating System: Vista Ultimate 64

2. Processor: T7300

3. RAM: 2GB, 2 sticks

4. Hard Drive: 160gig 5400rpm

5. Turbo Memory - yes

6. Clean Install

 

mmmm, nice. Those are about the specs I'm looking at. Did you have 32-bit when you first got it. If so, did 64-bit improve the boot time?

Everyones posts are encouraging! Beats the crazy long boot times I've been hearing about.

1.5 minutes or 2 minutes... whatever 30 second difference is no big deal, but a 7 minute boot time would be a deal breaker!

 

1. Model: T61

2. Operating System: Vista 32-bit

2. Processor: T7300

3. RAM: 2GB (two sticks of 1 GB 667)

4. Hard Drive: 120Gb 5400rpm

5. Turbo Memory - yes, 1 Gb

6. Factory Install? 6:56; Clean Install (w/o any ThinkVantage trash): 1:20

 

1. Model: ASUS (not naming)
2. OS: XP/Vista
3. Pentium-M 2.0Ghz Dothan
4. 2GB RAM
5. Fujitsu 80GB SATA I 5400RPM
5. No turbo memory
6. Heavily tweaked XP and Vista (clean installs)
7. XP = 31 s, Vista = 56 s to desktop add about 10 s for any program to open.

 

OK, so there is one of thosse crazy long boot times. Was this like the first or second boot after you got the machine or did you have several power-ups/power downs before you timed it? ...After clean install time is great!

 

Cheese and Rice!!! that is smokin'

 

It takes 20 seconds for my T23 to boot up on XP, why is it almost a minute for you guys ?

 

That sounds hard to believe. Is that with the system completely powered down and from the time you press the power button till desktop?

 

come on guys
there's no such thing as a 7500rpm hard-drive

 

why not just use hibernate or stand by. I always hibernate my laptop and it takes like 10 to 20 seconds to load.

 

Well you're just a complete genius for catching that typo and correcting us so gracefully Yes, we mean 7200rpm, I'm sure you could've figured that out.

BTW, you should start that sentence with a capital letter and end it with a period.

 

7200, my bad

 

Notebook specs in signature.

In XP, with major tweaking - 34s boot up, 13 seconds shutdown
In Vista, minor tweaking - 29 seconds to login screen, 56seconds to shutdown.

 

0 seconds to shutdown . Heck I had an old Pentium 3 933Mhz that booted XP in under a minute. I run TWO things on startup: Miranda and Logitech Drivers. That's IT. I'm also anal about what I let run on startup. None of this adobe gamma, nvwiz, avg updater, sun updater and whatever the heck else I had to take off. Useless stuff to have on boot. If I need it, I'll open it. I'm looking at you Adobe. I install photoshop and you need you run stuff at startup? Uhh no.

 

There were many power-ups and power-downs before I timed it. After about the 6th restart I was like, "wait a minute...this is taking way too long. Let's time this mother" And that's when I was like, nuh-uh. Then the blue screens started so I did a clean install.

 

Did the clean install fix your problems?

 

With the most powerful supercomputer running Windows XP x64 and having lots of RAM and cluster processors, booting up should take less than a second.
slightly ot : Anyone thought having a supercomputer as their personal everyday computer? i do!

 

Yes, it fixed them... shein_98 talks about it here... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=132673

 

I thought supercomputers use their own proprietary OS.

 

I managed to get my T60 to boot in about 15 seconds flat. I chopped apart the palmrest and fit a 2.5" 10k SAS drive in, with its own external power source.

I think my T60 is it up running between 35-45 seconds. Since I have a fingerprint required for windows login, it does take a few seconds for that stuff to load.

 

28 seconds to full boot on my mac book pro 2.2 with a 7k200

 

Mine seems to be about 65 sec from pushing the power button to the desktop and then another 10 sec before it finishes loading everything. I've tried a custom reinstall to get rid of some bloatware but it only wiped my drive clean before I got a message saying the recovery failed. so made a couple attempts at a factory full reinstall before it took (also got the message that the recovery failed) and reloaded everything. Then I just went in a did some cleanup (removed some programs (msn, aol, google, norton) and tried to stop some programs from autoloading, but that didn't seem to work cause it keeps loading it. Anyway, with this little amount of tweaking, it didn't save any boot up time.

1. Model (i.e. T61) T61p

2. Operating System (Vista 32, Vista 64, or XP) XP

2. Processor (i.e. T7500) 7500

3. RAM (i.e. 2GB, 1 stick, 667mhz) 2GB

4. Hard Drive (i.e. 7200RPM 100GB) 5400 160GB

5. Turbo Memory - yes/no No

6. Factory Install? or Clean Install? Factory install

 

1. Model T61

2. Operating System Vista 64

2. Processor T7700

3. RAM: 4GB 667 MHz

4. Hard Drive: 7200RPM 100GB

5. Turbo Memory - yes

6. Retail Install

About 55-80 seconds to boot up depending on, uh, the weather?