Caporegime
So I bought my laptop probably 3 and a half years ago, and it came with Windows 7 Home Premium x64 pre-installed.
Naturally it came with a load of bloatware and rubbish so I saved time by re-installing the OS immediately. With Windows 7 installed, it would take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes to boot into the OS, the ridiculous 2 minutes being after the service pack(s) arrived.
I did re-install Windows 7 on a number of occasions for various reasons as well, so it wasn't a bad OS install.
Now that I have Windows 8 Pro installed, it boots so fast it's unbelievable. I'm sitting at the desktop, with a perfectly usable laptop in under 10 seconds! My desktop (sig) doesn't get into Windows 7 anywhere near that fast even!
The spec of the laptop is nothing amazing these days, it was decent back in '09:
AMD Turion II M620 2.5GHz
4GB 800MHz DDR2
Radeon HD4530M 512MB
320GB Toshiba MK3276GSX 5.4K RPM
How exactly does Windows 8 work differently, that allows my laptop to be up and ready to go so much faster?
Cheers
Naturally it came with a load of bloatware and rubbish so I saved time by re-installing the OS immediately. With Windows 7 installed, it would take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes to boot into the OS, the ridiculous 2 minutes being after the service pack(s) arrived.
I did re-install Windows 7 on a number of occasions for various reasons as well, so it wasn't a bad OS install.
Now that I have Windows 8 Pro installed, it boots so fast it's unbelievable. I'm sitting at the desktop, with a perfectly usable laptop in under 10 seconds! My desktop (sig) doesn't get into Windows 7 anywhere near that fast even!
The spec of the laptop is nothing amazing these days, it was decent back in '09:
AMD Turion II M620 2.5GHz
4GB 800MHz DDR2
Radeon HD4530M 512MB
320GB Toshiba MK3276GSX 5.4K RPM
How exactly does Windows 8 work differently, that allows my laptop to be up and ready to go so much faster?
Cheers