How Fast Does the Asus EeePC Boot Up?

[Iamsdrich]

Since I had to get XP on mine for school, I put Ubuntu on a bootable keydrive. Yes, it is alot slower, but it's as close to dual boot as you'd (want to) get.

[davidmasson93]

Your the noob, mine boots in 16 seconds with Ubuntu 9.04. With some modding, I could probably get that to less than 10. Ubuntu 9.04 with tons of services boots in 7 seconds on my Core 2 Duo desktop.

[fergfergferg123]

not really u can't afford windows so you use free stuff and you are talking a load of bullshit mate linux ubuntu can't boot in 7 seconds, to fully load, that is like saying it loads but you can't do anything for a minute,

[davidmasson93]

That is shit, I have an enterprise license with microsoft. Not only that but the core 2 is clocked to 4 ghz, with a raid 5. Check your facts before you start calling people noobs...

[fergfergferg123]

wow....

get over the fact ure pc is shit

im sure many people can tell u

who gives a shit if ure clocked

INTEL Core i7-975 Extreme Edition - 3.33 GHz is still faster

[ByT3R]

o.-

ATM, the i7 is slower on benchmarks than a few of Core 2's duo and quads due to lack of fully compliant chipsets.

If you want power, go pro workstation. Nothing like 4x quad core + 64GB RAM + 9x 300GB 15k RPM SCSI Cheetah's in RAID 50 +4x Crossfire'd Radeon HD's (or 1 Firegl, depending on application).

[fergfergferg123]

ubuntu? u a hobo?

[warezakias1admin]

320GB SSD?

You must be very rich.

[fantomfeltpen]

my quad core sli gaming rig takes 3 times as long to boot as my 900 (16gb)... they are both xp

[Xovious]

Mine booted up in 1.78 seconds. I have the 900A

[dzidzelis]

I recommend this only to woman whos traveling, dont need any games only skype, net and music. 100% not recommend for gamers

[8309400]

write speed is often concealed when u buy an ssd drive or usb key,but a write latency higher than 1 Milisecond is unacceptable for an ssd drive. Volatile Ram drives have a write latency of 0.6 microseconds, write speed is what makes a drive blazing fast in boot times, app runs, and pagefile, not the MB/s transfer figures. MB/s counts only when copying large files from drive to drive. make sure you see random write speed mesured in miliseconds before you buy an ssd, if its concealed, dont buy it.

[quangsi]

LOL get a MACBOOK AIR!!!! i road about this one and it says it only have 2gb harddisk and 2gb? what do u do with 2gb?

[HellRazraus]

actually there are different model, theres 2g, 4g, 8g and its like 1/4 the price of the air

[hawko84]

do a little research if your gona make vastly generalising comments like that, mac fanboy

[CardMagic12345]

macbook air sucks monkkey bawlz. Get the new think pad...thinner and more ports+better specs+ dvd and cd drive

[sixthsomatic]

Theres a new 20gb version out. Its also expandable through an SD memory slot.

[appcookie]

They all are, but yeah, the 901 is for me. :)

[rufusvonstorm]

slow boot for a calculator

[ubuntu704feistyfawn]

agree, buying eee pc is waste of money. man it have only 8 gb hdd 1 ghz and 512 ram, it's slow in nowadays...very slow.

[sausagenmuff]

it all depends what you are using it for... a suped up gaming laptop will boot and browse the web SLOWER than a eee, where as a eee cant do complex apps or games too terribly well. eee's are a favorite of network techs cause of there insanely fast HD's and portability

[XFi6]

"there"?

[ddhboy2]

Not really, I could imagine giving these types of computers to a child or someone who's a bit older, I could definitely see my mom using one of these things.

[cyborgtroy]

The idea is for it to be small and cheap, and 8GB of secondary with 0.5 - 1 GB of RAM is perfect for that.

and the 1Ghz is totally irrelevant. My Core 2 Duo and some Pentium IIIs run at 1 Ghz, it's a meaningless number.

[unknown8585]

the song is by Kazzer - Petal To The Metal....i googled the lyrics.

[GrailcodeDotNet]

Much faster, smaller, and more powerful laptops coming very soon. I'll wait another few months.

[eliden]

Buy an asus or another 8800 gtx? thats my question! if this eeepc can run warcraft iii i would buy it... can u test some games?

[JarvidO]

well hed have to

Sudo apt-get install wine

then

Install warcraft

It probably take 5 minutes dending on his internet.

[BADRUNESCAPE13]

LINUX?

[cyborgtroy]

THE WHOLE THING

[HorustheElder]

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

[24oscar24]

93MB THE HOLE THING?

[IceAMD]

Whats the song called? :P please reply :)

[666rapist]

I dont really understand whats so great about this computer

[r2yi]

The difference is:

1. asus used solid state disks for permanent data storage device not standart hard disc. SSD is like memory-disk. Is has no movable parts inside. So its so fast mainly for that reason.

2. I think, they customized os (xandros) parts. Remove unnessary parts of kernel(os brain) and makes compact, specialized os. So if you install xp on eeepc, its not so fast as xandros.

[vahnx1337]

That's pretty fast.