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Ridiculously fast
Aloone_Jonez:
I think the best way with Windows is to look at task manager and wait for the CPU usage to drop to 0.
I used to find this was more of a problem with Windows 95/98. XP doesn't seem to have the same problem, the only things I have to wait to load are some of the programs which run directly under my account such as the OpenOffice.org quickstarter and other processes but I imagine that will be similar for Linux.
davidnix71:
Ridiculous speed sounds like Spaceballs.
http://rubystuff.org/ludicrous/ The Ludicrous JIT compiler.
They've gone into plaid
Lead Head:
Hilarious movie!
I've noticed on my fathers older (~2005) Dell Laptop with Windows XP, even after the Welcome screen shows it will continue to thrash the hard drive for a good while later. Even if you don't click on a user name and log in.
worker201:
The buzz about XP when it first came out was that it would constantly be attempting to open network tunnels and send usage information back to the Microsoft mothership. That's probably what's going on when it's thrashing at odd times like that - trying to phone home.
bedouin:
I have a 16gb SSD in my netbook running Ubuntu. It's not as fast as this guy's starting up, but then again his machine is much better specced.
This $100 drive is really tempting in my desktop, where I'm still using a 36gb Raptor as my boot drive. Hell, getting 4 of them and ditching all my internal HDs is an interesting idea. 180gb should be fine considering all my network storage. The decrease in case temperature and noise would be awesome.
I'd have a lonely Raptor with no home though.
Also, I could RAID 0 the SSDs with pretty much no fear of mechanical failure. Oh man -- I hate you for creating this temptation in me. Another thing justifying it is even though my machine is old (dual 1.8ghz PowerMac), I could use those drives just as happily when I upgrade to a MacPro.
$100/each -- so damn tempting.
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