Originally Posted by dtravis7

Very well said DB. I have had endless discussions with people who feel a computers speed is it's Boot Time. Nothing can be farther from the truth. I have seen very messed up XP systems take 3 minutes to boot but once there they would rip or encode Video way faster than some other systems that booted in 20 seconds. Booting speed rarely has anything to do with CPU speed in most cases.

I have a AMD 64 Gaming system with XP SP2 that I keep very simple and clean and it boots in 10-12 seconds to the desktop. But I have a Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz and it boots up just as fast, 10-12 seconds. No joke. I run no startup programs and run Onyx or MainMenu to keep the OS running smooth. The slowest booting mac is my iBook G4 and even it's 45 seconds. I am more concerned what happens once at the desktop when doing real work!!