The Engineering Windows 7 blog has a
great post about the boot time speeds in Windows 7. It looks like a powerful system could be responsive from power on in under 15s!
Quote:
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Startup can be one of three experiences; boot, resume from sleep, or resume from hibernate. Although resume from sleep is the default, and often 2 to 5 seconds based on common hardware and standard software loads, this post is primarily about boot as that experience has been commented on frequently. For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times. In the lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.
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Current Windows Vista boot times are mapped out as follows, and you can see that most systems take around 30-40s to boot.