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Want to see how fast Windows 8 can boot? Watch the video below, it is rather impressive.
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Yeah that'll work, for like a week.
Also my BIOS takes 8 seconds to load, that laptop skips right past that.
No HP logo and POST screen?
That's an HP Elitebook 2540p I think. No HP logo and POST screen? It seems to have gone straight into Windows?
Usually, the verbose output is blocked unless you hit a key that allows the output, or if the BIOS allows it, configure to output messages.
I knew this could not be a cold boot, exactly when watching this. It did have some "hibernation factor" from the article (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx): "Our solution is a new fast startup mode which is a hybrid of traditional cold boot and resuming from hibernate." Also note, in the article that many rather prefer to reboot than hibernate their laptops. How, asinine.
Just Microsoft taking two years to go through all their checklist items of Windows features explaining why each of them in the newer OS better than in the current OS!
Mmm.. seems I have heard this all before..
Windows 7 - Windows 7 is designed to significantly improve speed, efficiency, and ultimately, productivity. Users spend less time waiting for boot and resume
Windows Vista - Users will love the fast start-up time and even faster return from Sleep state.
Windows XP - Microsoft® Windows® XP offers excellent overall performancewhich includes dramatically faster boot and resume times and highly responsive applications.
Windows ME - Microsoft is working with its associates to improve boot time with Windows Me on new PCs.
Windows 98 - This latest operating system is supposed to boot up faster than Windows 95,
Just Microsoft taking two years to go through all their checklist items of Windows features explaining why each of them in the newer OS better than in the current OS!
Wonder if that was an SSD or a generic 5400 rpm laptop drive like most cheap laptops would have?
I never use hibernate. Sleep only unless I am going to be away from the computer all day or longer, then I turn it off/unplug it.
4) Anyone notice the video skip like they did a retake? I know it probably was just because she screwed up her lines, but I found it quite funny that they didn't just re-shoot the whole thing seamlessly since it boots up so fast and all
Anyone notice at the :30 - :31 mark the "cut"? If you have a hard time seeing it look at her hair, def some "editing" done to the video.. hope its not to make it "Look" like its booting faster.
Zarathustra[H];1037732522 said:1.) Doesn't mean shit if its a crippled mobile-style OS. Of OSX Lion is any indication of what desktop operating systems look like when you integrate mobile features into them, I think I'll pass. I want my phone to be more like my computer, NOT my computer to be more like my phone...
I call BS on that video outright. my first question is, what's the hardware (SSD specifically), how did you optimize the bios and the install, I want to see a fresh install on a HDD. Regardless, it's great that they're optimizing this to be on and ready ASAP, the average user is easy to impress. I'm the guy that has to sell these, build these, fix these...you can throw all the marketing at me you want, I'm suspicious still.
I did see the HP Logo, most modern UEFI BIOSes, you can set to skip past testing and go to the OS immediately.
Yeah that'll work, for like a week.
I call BS on that video outright. my first question is, what's the hardware (SSD specifically), how did you optimize the bios and the install, I want to see a fresh install on a HDD. Regardless, it's great that they're optimizing this to be on and ready ASAP, the average user is easy to impress. I'm the guy that has to sell these, build these, fix these...you can throw all the marketing at me you want, I'm suspicious still.
I did see the HP Logo, most modern UEFI BIOSes, you can set to skip past testing and go to the OS immediately.
Wonder if that was an SSD or a generic 5400 rpm laptop drive like most cheap laptops would have?
I would rather see a boot too a functional desktop and not that..whatever the fuck that call that feature that will get turned off.
There is quite literally no down-side to this implementation. So everyone quit your god damn bitching.
That is the functional desktop. The Metro UI and the Desktop UI are not two separate loading events. If the Metro UI is laoded, so is the Desktop UI and vice versa. You can switch instantly between them. That is booted to a completely loaded desktop.
That was after the boot up completed.
Woot Windows 8 comes with a 8GB static ram drive everyone rejoice !!
I think your looking at the 2nd one at the :32 mark.. there is one right after the post segment and then the boot up logo.. its hard to catch if your not looking real hard but I noticed it in her hair.. you can see it between the boot logo and the home screen they show... I think its a "time edit"
That is the functional desktop. The Metro UI and the Desktop UI are not two separate loading events. If the Metro UI is laoded, so is the Desktop UI and vice versa. You can switch instantly between them. That is booted to a completely loaded desktop.
I'm not completely sure about that, I think there's a decoupling between the classic desktop and the tiles desktop however there's no way to know what exactly was loaded here or even if there's much of a hit for launching the classic desktop.
How fast can I see a loaded web page or my synced Outlook inbox after pushing the power button?