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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Jay on 16 September 2011, 22:56
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for those that missed it
Now considering this is pre-beta code, it's damned quick :evil:
Enjoying using it on a virtual machine at work, but need to use it on a real machine NOW :evil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5z_WPsxsUU
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Quick, but that shows nothing.
How do I know that that is the desktop thats loaded? It could just be a quickly coded image.
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errr it is the real deal, Microsoft wouldn't put that out there if it weren't can you imagine the black lash if it were faked?
Trust me on this, having run it in virtual machines it's quick too boot not that quick but I've not given it much resources :grin:
Full explanation here if you are bored.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx
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Thy hid the 9ghz overclock and nitrogen cooling there :grin: :grin: :grin:
I don't understand what boot time has got to do as a performance benchmark, just a marketing gimmick... Bring back XP :grin:
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:grin:
Nah I prefer the new Blue Screen of Death, XP's was SOOOO last decade :grin:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=271674969519070&set=pu.184357191584182&type=1&theater
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errr it is the real deal, Microsoft wouldn't put that out there if it weren't can you imagine the black lash if it were faked?
I don't doubt you. Stuff is always available to MSDN subscribers really early.
But that video is not on a Microsoft website, or even on a MS youtube channel. There's little in there to prove authenticity.
Bootup time is only important really for laptop and netbook users who will be turning their PCs off and back on frequently as they move from place to place.
What they would be better devoting time to is making windows run better without hogging resources.
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Looks good whats the red one look like :grin: :grin: :grin:
I miss xp, too me thats when MS got it right, but they are cutting back on so much support for it such as the live services. Hate all this ribbon interface etc... I understand they are aiming for the touch screen market, but they are not appealing to my 32" desktop with flight simulators :grin:
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errr it is the real deal, Microsoft wouldn't put that out there if it weren't can you imagine the black lash if it were faked?
I don't doubt you. Stuff is always available to MSDN subscribers really early.
But that video is not on a Microsoft website, or even on a MS youtube channel. There's little in there to prove authenticity.
Bootup time is only important really for laptop and netbook users who will be turning their PCs off and back on frequently as they move from place to place.
What they would be better devoting time to is making windows run better without hogging resources.
If you have a look on the MSDN link I posted you'll see the video there :wink: Doing this people can save battery life on the laptop/tablets by powering down when they don't need them on and have the benefit of quick boots :wink:
It's also available to ANYONE who goes to dev.windows.com and wants to download 1 of 3 ISO's ( I recommend the 64 bit with Dev tools ISO, around 4.8Gb but has all the tools and the Metro apps work, whereas the 32bit ISO the apps don't work, actually here's the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/apps/br229516/
Win8 is also going to need less resources or equal to that Win7 machines, most likely less from what I've read.
I understand they are aiming for the touch screen market, but they are not appealing to my 32" desktop with flight simulators :grin:
Good thing you can access the normal Windows 7 like interface then and disable the ribbon in explorer :wink:
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Surely Sleep/hibernate is a better idea than contiguous boot on/offs though?
Whats happened to the RSOD
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Full power downs aren't any more or less better than the other, personal preference at the end of the day. Not seen a RSOD in many many years, I had to do a search for it to refresh my memory even then I think it was only pics I had seen because I've never had a RSOD myself :grin:
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Improving boot times was one of the aims of Win8. But a lot of this will be down to hardware too so there will be changes that manufacturers will need to make to help with some of the features in Win8.
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Just started to download the beta, will report back once its downloaded which could take a few days haha
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My boot time is like 20 seconds on Win 7, how much faster do you need it to be :grin:
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My boot time is like 20 seconds on Win 7, how much faster do you need it to be :grin:
I can make it quicker without changing the hardware :evil:
This shaved 10 seconds off my boot time on my i7,16gb beast
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140262-how-to-speed-up-boot-process-under-windows-vista-or-windows-7/
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isnt the boot time down to the HDD or more like the SSD?
im not a computer guru i use xp and linux mint because its free lol.
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I see they've announced they're dropping flash support on Metro Win 8. Seems SJ wasn't too far off the mark but maybe peaked a little early.
That boot up is pretty damn fast. My MBP will boot in about 20 secs which is fast enough for me although I can trim that down to about 10 is I stuck an SSD in it.
Nick
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Not exaclty a fresh cold boot though is it?
:wink:
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No it's not and it is a bit of a cheat, but will the average person care how it's done? nope :smiley:
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Improving boot times was one of the aims of Win8. But a lot of this will be down to hardware too so there will be changes that manufacturers will need to make to help with some of the features in Win8.
not really, they have changed the way windows actually loads; part of this is done by saving the system state to the harddrive similar to if you hibernate your pc, most of the demo vids were done on magnetic drives, so could be speeded up further with an SSD
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/windows-8-boot-time-to-be-drastically-reduced-shown-off-in-vide/
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No it's not and it is a bit of a cheat, but will the average person care how it's done? nope :smiley:
Fine for web browsing i guess, assuming plugins / browser / OS manages memory OK, i.e. used memory is returned OK once an app closes. Not traditionally one of Windows strong points!
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Any app that's open will be closed normally when the system is shutdown, so that's not a problem I believe. It's only the Kernel that's hibernated.