With your computer turned off ,press on and time how long it takes you to get to the STW forum.
2012 mac book pro 2:41.

2s to pick up my phone 😉

5 seconds. I picked up my iPhone while waiting.

This computer – would be about 10-15 minutes. Profiles, policies, updates, autostart shite, all stuff I have no control over.

but lenovo yoga, 49s from cold boot.

I’ll try this over the weekend on my laptop (might get told off at work).

I’ll post live updates from my phone too. I’ll have time.

48s the second time just to check.

windows 10, Core i3.

59.6 sec

Edit – just disabled spotify on startup. 57.4

🙄 😆

quiet day in the shop Zippy? 😛

My desktop computer. 37s. Acer Revo One, small, cheap, but SSD as standard.

Lenovo Thinkpad (Win 7) – about ten minutes 😳

tablet? Seconds

Get more work done on the Thinkpad as only use it to actually do constructive stuff. Surfing is a slow-mo no-no. So, in that, it wastes less inestimably time than the tablet.

quiet day in the shop Zippy?

Computer is being looked at by a man on Wednesday, so really wanted to gauge how slow it is and if he actually makes a difference.
Once on the forum though I did have to wait for the whirly wheel to go away before I could type anything.

Computer is being looked at by a man on Wednesday, so really wanted to gauge how slow it is and if he actually makes a difference.

Seems quite fast for a 2012 Mac Book Pro, you probably need to get a new one.

My desktop in work 28s, my laptop at home a tiny bit quicker, but this one is getting on a bit now.

It’s a Core i5 a ‘vPro’ no less, 2nd Gen I think.
Win10 so whilst Firefox will start quickly it’s still a bit clunky for the first min or two.
SSD of course.

Win 7

Yeah, that too – makes a big difference.

Erratum:

It wastes inestimably less inestimably time than the tablet.

Grrrr. Case in point 😀

I’ve got an old Lenovo desktop here. Pentium E5700 dual-core @ 3GHz, 2Gb RAM, 2.5″ 7200RPM mechanical HDD, Windows 10. Google would suggest 2011 vintage.

POST complete and starting to boot Windows at 10 seconds.
Windows login screen at 18 seconds.
Logged in and at the desktop, 24 seconds (including time taken to enter my password).
Fired up Chrome, STW page fully loaded, 34 seconds since I first pressed the power button.

“Windoze,” hey.

Surface Pro 4: 13s to get to the log-in screen, 16 to be logged in automatically with face recognition and get the desktop but Edge took its time and I got the page within about 56s. I think perhaps Slack took its time on startup.

HPZ440. SSD Win 10.

39 seconds from cold. Takes longer to do POST checks that load Windows it seems.

12 seconds from cold boot to STW home page.

i7 @ 4.8ghz under water, 32gb low latency ram, and loads of SSD’s 😆

Laptop < 20 seconds (I’ve timed it before :roll:)
I have previously got to Chrome in under 10 seconds, but Laptop needs a re-install.
Home PC < 15 seconds (I’ve timed it before :roll:)
Work PC, which includes typing password and network stuff, 38.65 seconds

Not at home but I’d guess about 20 to 30 seconds.

Win 10 with a Samsung evo SSD y’all.

If I set the forum as home page on my browser, under 20 seconds.

25 seconds here. Win 7 HomePremium
PC Intel i5 processor with SSD

25 seconds here. Win 7 HomePremium
PC Intel i5 processor with SSD

Surely no software installed?!

About 90 minutes.

I did go to the shops between pressing the on button and opening STW though, does this still count?

Right, going for it now.

Hardware specs Packard Bell (not HP my bad) Easynote TE. Intel B820 6GB DDR 3 Ram – GO!

Starting windows.

Log on screen welcome spinning now

I’m in!

2.56 to a useable homepage, 3.30 until it actually stopped loading.

Better than I thought it would be to be honest, looks like my mass clearing of programs and start processes has helped.

Bang on a minute on iPad mini 2

2’14” from plugging in the tower to typing in this box:

Boot
enter windows
open firefox
restore last session
click firefox tab.

Seems quite fast for a 2012 Mac Book Pro,

45 seconds with a 2010 Macbook (not pro) and a slow rural internet – has additional ram and an SSD though

you probably need to get a new one.

yeah -get a new one and send the old one to me 🙂

18 seconds

(Toshiba Satellite i5 6200U / 16GB / Win 10)

Pretty pleased with that – thanks Mick if you’re reading, it’s still going strong 🙂

38 seconds. Toshiba Satellite, Windows 7, Intel i5 1.6GHz, 6gb ram, SSD.

27 seconds including typing 13 character password.

Chromebook.

Not wishing to piss on your fireworks here people, but it’s hardly scientific is it? One big variable that springs to mind would be your bandwidth and/or internet speed as I’m sure that would also be a factor?

Perhaps?

How about timing how long it takes for updates to download and install? 😉

36s including logging into the OS

2015 MBP 15″ running Fedora Rawhide.

29 seconds on assus chrome book including typing in our password.

I can go from off to dataloss faster than you can say

Arrremmm-arrrefff

I’ve just moved over to SSD. Still 4GB of ram and an i3 but 34 seconds now from powering up to typing here.