"clifto" wrote in message
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Billy Smith wrote:
"clifto" wrote in message
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Billy Smith wrote:
"clifto" wrote in message
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Or the owner not being able to afford a 900 terahertz 16-core
processor
with 100 terabytes of memory.

What makes this interesting to me is that I paid 200 dollars for the
desktop
computer brand new out of the box at Circuit City.

Details, please. At that price point I could justify having a laptop
myself.

The first computer I ever booted Vista on was a friend's laptop, a
quad-core
Intel something near 3 GHz. It took over ten minutes to boot this
almost-
brand-new-with-nothing-added computer.

Its never taken me ten minutes to boot any of my computers.

It's never taken me ten minutes to boot anything, including mainframes
or minicomputers, until that Vista boot. The only thing that ever took
longer was loading BASIC onto minis from paper tape in the seventies.
That took about 45 minutes at about four characters per second.

What I will
recommend is not to have a lot of stuff in your start menu

This was a brand-new laptop given to me by the owner's boyfriend for a
once-over and recommendations on virus/spyware/etc protection. The only
things that had been added to it were Kodak software and about 50
pictures.
I did describe it as "almost-brand-new-with-nothing-added".

--
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

I just turned on the desktop Vista machine and it took about two minutes at
most to boot up. After I added the password for my system protection. So
thats about enough time to walk to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. I was
on the internet in the third minute. Computer running flawlessly from the
get go. So you can be the Linux advocate all you would like, but facts are
that Linux isnt all its cracked up to be.

Regarding this computer, I paid 200 for the computer itself and added a 200
buck 20 inch monitor.

Its funny that you mention that your laptop runs so slowly. Yet I have a
laptop with 120 GB full of information, music, videos and it doesn't take
me 10 minutes or even 5 to start up. Not to mention it has about 10 things
in the start menu at the very start. Maybe takes 3 or 4 minutes to access
the net through my wireless card and the router across the house

For it to take 10 minutes would be cumbersome and boring at best. I would
seriously have to wonder what you really are claiming to have on your
computer because I have had 3 different computer on today and none took more
than 3 minutes to boot up.