OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: ????" by Laurence

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Apr 2007 16:35 UTC, submitted by Flatline

"Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP? Something obviously went awry. As Computerworld is reporting, a number of Vista users are none too happy about Vista boot-up times. Some are questioning whether Microsoft is advocating that users just put Vista into sleep mode, as opposed to shutting down systems on a daily basis, to mask the sluggish boot up."

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RE[2]: ????

by Laurence on Thu 12th Apr 2007 20:08 UTC in reply to "RE: ????"

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2007-03-26

Core duos actually *are* pretty fast machines, actually, but since that is what many Vista systems are running on, that is irrelevant for the topic

It's not what that many Vista systems are running on though. Just take a look through PC World* at their budget systems (be it laptop of desktop). All have Vista on and all grossly underspeced for the bloated OS.

* I'm sure most over high-street IT / electrical store are the same.

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RE[3]: ????

by Flatline on Thu 12th Apr 2007 20:18 in reply to "RE[2]: ????"

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2006-03-06

I agree (I said as much in the rest of my post). Until the "default" setups are updated, those stores and OEMs are going to continue to field a lot of complaints.

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