Vista. I "looks" like it is ready after about 45 seconds, but trying to start an application will only get you a "program not responding" or some similar sort of error message along the top of the screen.
On May 2, 2010, at 7:19 AM, eckinator wrote: > 2010/5/2 Adam Maas <[email protected]>: >> >> My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's >> 30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4). > > Sounds like XP, or worse Vista? > >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Mac [...] boots up and connects to drives, the web, etc. in about 45 >>> seconds. My "fast" Dell takes about 15 minutes to get past all of the "not >>> responding" issues before it will actually function. > > Sounds like your system is all messed up - "not responding" is not > default Windows behaviour =P > > I've yet to switch to Mac but have to give it to M$ that with Win7 > they've for the first time since 2000 Pro (and before) put an OS in my > hands that is actually fast and stable and clean. I am super happy > with it and since they've split it into chunks that are loaded as > needed both startup and running are quite fast plus it works well on > older hardware. My ex-XP Lenovo T61 runs faster under 7 than it ever > did under XP. Vista RC1 had despite 2 GB of RAM and a reasonably fast > CPU for all practical purposes brought it to its knees, mind you. > > So if you're unhappy with Windows, you may actually want to try an > upgrade on your old hardware. Just make sure you have a version which > includes the XP Virtual Machine so that you can run all legacy > software. > > *end shameless plug* > > Cheers > Ecke > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
