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Ok, I timed my work machine running Win7 64-bit this morning.
It's an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, on an Asus P5QL-Pro board, 4GB Corsair XMS2 ram, with a 500GB Western Digital Caviar BLUE hard drive. The box is set up as a triple boot of WinXP 32-bit, Win7 64-bit and Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit.
From the time I hit the power button, it takes my box about 23 seconds to get through the POST to my grub bootloader. Once I select Windows from Grub, it takes 3 more seconds to get to my Windows bootloader.
From the point that I click on Windows 7, it takes 16 seconds to bring me to the logon prompt and at the 24 second mark, I have typed in my password and have a desktop with no spinning blue circle.
Running the RestartTime.vbs file shows the following on the same machine:
That's not bad at all considering that I have an IDE DVD Burner on the box, so it has to initialize the Marvell IDE controller and I have a stand-alone Intel 10/100/1000GT NIC which initializes as well during the POST. Then, I have my password which takes me about 2 seconds to type in and mash enter.