Believe it or not ?? Boot Windows 7 in 10 Seconds
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Big foot. The Loch Ness Monster. The Chupacabra. Instant-on notebooks. We’ve heard a lot about them, but never seen one in the wild. While we have seen light, fast-booting Linuxes like Phoenix Hyperspace and Splashtop, none of them is exactly instant. Even with the boot-speed improvements in Windows 7, we always find ourselves waiting a good 45 to 50 seconds on even the fastest SSD-based notebooks we’ve tested.
One big reason why no operating system can really boot instantly is that the BIOS itself take anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds of turning on devices (the hard drive, CPU, ports, controllers, etc) before it even lets the operating system start loading off of the hard drive or SSD. So even if Windows could load immediately, you would still have to wait quite a while for it.
Enter Phoenix’s new Instant Boot BIOS. It cuts down the post time to roughly one second. Phoenix’s Chief Scientist Steve Jones explained that the new BIOS uses UEFI technology (a new kind of BIOS platform) to power on several system devices simultaneously and to run only those processes which are absolutely necessary to hand control over to the OS.
We had a chance to view Instant Boot in action on a Lenovo T400s, which was equipped with a high-speed SSD. About one second after hitting the power button, we saw the hard drive light flickering and noticed that Windows had already started loading. Because this system had a high-speed SSD and the Windows install didn’t have a lot of exra drivers or crapware, Windows 7 itself took only 10 seconds to get us to a desktop.
We have video of the boot up process below so you can see what we saw. Just don’t blame us if you drool on your keyboard.
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