No, Windows 7 isn't slower than Vista, even at booting

Lee boot times are important as people dont like to wait. I tried telling my dad to switch of his pc when hes not using it and he said no as it takes so long to boot (his reboot time is about 50 seconds). So he switches it on in the morning and then switches it off at night, which is just a complete waist of energy.

There are loads of reasons to wanting faster boot times like you are a student with a laptop and have to switch of your pc due to power requirements and then have to wait in class while it boots up. You have work to do etc etc etc

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
I don't wish to disparage keeness and the willingness of people to do research

but isn't this whole topic a LOAD OF

Cheers
jimbo

Just like the topics that state Vista as being faster?

The rare time I wanted to re-boot it seemed quite a bit faster.

And really it doesn't matter under 7. Why? Edit--well reading a post above, for some people it might.

Because the OS has proven so reliable and stable I really haven't had the need but once or twice.

Even though XP was pretty darned good I still rebooted maybe an average once ot twice a week. I can see with 7 it might be that many times in a month.

stew2 said:

Lee boot times are important as people dont like to wait. I tried telling my dad to switch of his pc when hes not using it and he said no as it takes so long to boot (his reboot time is about 50 seconds). So he switches it on in the morning and then switches it off at night, which is just a complete waist of energy.

There are loads of reasons to wanting faster boot times like you are a student with a laptop and have to switch of your pc due to power requirements and then have to wait in class while it boots up. You have work to do etc etc etc

Well, there is a cure to it. It's called SSD. You might even beat 10 seconds.

whs said:

Well, there is a cure to it. It's called SSD. You might even beat 10 seconds.

Not sure about that. I've got an Intel X25-M SSD running my Windows 7 64-bit OS and I think my boot times after the post are about 20 seconds to logon.

Zen00 said:

But that's a cure that might be worse than the disease. High end SSD's cost upwards of $400, but I could get a high end server hard drive for less than half that.

The 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 2 SSD drive can be found for $249 at various websites...including mwave.com. Not only did it speed up my boot times, but apps load almost instantly and video game loading has improved tremendously. Seriously, the game performance increase is the biggest noticeable change since I switched to an SSD.

I do agree though that the use of SSD is really too expensive to justify except for the people who want sheer performance or are tech nerds.

Cheers whs il take this one - SSD Just let me know when youve posted it.

But seriously they are far to expensive just now, i and many others will have to wait.

stew2 said:

Cheers whs il take this one - SSD Just let me know when youve posted it.

But seriously they are far to expensive just now, i and many others will have to wait.

Stay away from the Generation 1 versions of the Intel drives. You can spot them by the G1 at the end of the model number. The reason that you want a G2 is that only the G2 models support the TRIM feature.

Yeah i havent really looked into it as they are way to expensive just now. All i know is i want a SLC one and now that it has to be a G2 as well. Il wait till they are cheaper and any problems with them have been found and solved.

So it will be next year il get one.