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New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second

Posted by timothy on from the nice-start dept.

suraj.sun excerpts from a tantalizing Engadget post: "Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS [video here], a highly optimized UEFI implementation that can start loading an OS in just under a second. Combined with Windows 7's optimized startup procedure, that means you're looking at incredibly short boot times — we saw a retrofitted Dell Adamo hit the Windows desktop in 20 seconds, while a Lenovo T400s with a fast SSD got there in under 10."

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  1. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sweet! So the total time to boot Windows 7 will be 23 minutes and 1 second!

  2. Re:yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There we go - I knew someone would find a down side to this. If it was a Linux OS that got this benefit everyone would be short stroking it all over their inflatable penguin love dolls, but since it's MS there has to be something bad about it. Way to be thing you claim to hate! Good going guys!

  3. interviewer by FunkyELF · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The interviewer was an idiot.

  4. Re:It will also "start to boot" Linux in 1 Second! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But there is no special relationship between this bios and Windows 7, meaning that Linux can't also start-to-boot in 1 second!

    Somewhere in Redmond a troll just snorted battery acid and gasoline all over its keyboard.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  5. Re:BIOS by Schnoogs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Did I say anywhere in my post that I was talking about booting to the desktop?

  6. Re:BIOS by Schnoogs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I got modded flamebait for clarifying my previous comment?????

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!