cold start took more than two minutes (Mossberg)

[Jim Witte]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> I also was shocked at how long this machine took to restart and to  
> do a cold start after being completely shut down. Restarting took  
> over three minutes, and a cold

   I wonder, how long would it have taken if booted under Boot Camp?   
Of course, then it wouldn't have all the "teaser software" and ad- 
ware on it - just Windows Vista or whatever.  But it would give an  
indication of just how slow *windows itself* is booting, loading  
hundreds or thousands of dll's..  Of course MacOSX probably loads  
hundreds of various Darwin kernal files, and then bunches of it's own  
extensions/frameworks during the boot-process too..

   Sigh - how fast could computers start up if software engineers  
*really* tightened up the startup process?  My Newton (mind you, not  
really all that powerful, woe-fully out-of-date, but the OS is  
completely memory-resident) will restart (or cold-boot, they are the  
same) in about 10 seconds, not counting package loading.  It wakes  
from sleep in less than a second (like an iPod, which also has a  
completely memory resident OS - or perhaps almost).  If I want it to  
load all the packages required for internet access, wireless access,  
bluetooth, the MP3 driver and player, web browser, mail program,  
native QD driver and a few games, the cold-boot time probably goes up  
to about a minute or less.  Perhaps faster if you have a faster  
memory card, or an overclocked Newt (or a tablet PC running Einstein,  
except Einstein takes a $#@%-load of memory and processor power to  
even run at about the same speed as an MP2100 - at least I think it  
still does).