Acer Aspire One boot time less than 30 seconds

Another reason to buy an Acer Aspire One is the quick boot time. In a recent New York Times Technical article: In a New Age of Impatience, Cutting Computer Start Time It is the black hole of the digital age � the three minutes it can take for your computer to boot up, when there is nothing to do but wait, and wait, and wait some more before you can log on and begin multitasking at hyper-speed.

PC manufacturers Dell, Lenova and HP will introduce a new generation of quick start computers.

Why wait for the next generation? The Acer Aspire One boots in under 30 seconds, if running the Linpus OS and booting off the 8GB solid state hard drive.

Even Microsoft, whose bloated Windows software is often blamed for sluggish start times, has pledged to do its part in the next version of the operating system, saying on a company blog that �a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.� Today only 35 percent of machines running the latest version of Windows, called Vista, boot in 30 seconds or less, the blog notes. (Apple Macintoshes tend to boot more quickly than comparable Windows machines but still feel glacially slow to most users.)

The NY Times article continues with a quote from UCLA professor Gary Small,

Gary Small, a professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles. �Our brains have become impatient with the boot-up process,� Dr. Small said. �We have been spoiled by the hand-held devices.�