Foo - Because racing season is over...

I'll race your computer.

From completely powered off to having BF on your browser page.


1 minute 2 seconds

MacBook Pro

whatevs.. Mine boots up in 4 minutes.. I am going to sulk (I have a pentium 166mhz, my cell phone has a processor that operates faster)

whatevs.. Mine boots up in 4 minutes.. I am going to sulk (I have a pentium 166mhz, my cell phone has a processor that operates faster)

MHz?

What is that? :eek::D

do i have to shave my legs for this? hold on...i am gonna go warm up and take a gel...

1 min. 29 sec. P4 2.66 512 meg ram XP

Ubuntu took just less than 30 seconds.

It would probably be considerably faster if i had more ram.

My old P3/533 with BeOS would cold-boot to the desktop in four goddamn seconds. Add in loading whatever browser it used and loading BF, we're probably talking 15 seconds, tops.

I don't even turn off my computer nowadays, so I dunno. Turning it off would take away precious looking-at-this-gorgeous-monitor time.

I do believe you have a problem, sir. Not that it's my business. Just noting.

I have all kinds of problems. I'm okay with that.

Is there a way that I can make you not okay with your having problems, but not to such a degree as for it to interfere with your life, just make you uncomfortable?

Probably, but I'm afraid that's something you're going to have to research on your own. Not something I should really be helping you with. You understand, I'm sure.

1:15. Damn.

I need to shave weight. Will removing the post-it-notes make me go faster?

Meh... takes me about 5 seconds to log in and click 'refresh' on my browser. Who turns their computer OFF, anyway??????? *boggles*

My old P3/533 with BeOS would cold-boot to the desktop in four goddamn seconds. Add in loading whatever browser it used and loading BF, we're probably talking 15 seconds, tops.

I don't even turn off my computer nowadays, so I dunno. Turning it off would take away precious looking-at-this-gorgeous-monitor time.


:eek: You used BeOS? I'm so jealous... I wanted a BeBox for the longest time, and was hoping Apple would choose it for a Copland replacement back in the day. I even had my Mac themed with Kaleidoscope to make it look like I was running BeOS. Ah, the memories...

39 seconds. MacBook. :)

I've still got another month of racing. I'll time my macbook pro then.

MHz?

What is that? :eek::D

Something we used when you kiddies didn't know what a computer was yet.

No matter how hard I turn the crank on my computer box, it still takes around an hour and a half to boot up. However, the clown pops out of the top with much more authority at the end.

Cypress:

Can't get enough of the zoolander Magnum move in your signature.

I thought it was blue steel.

My old P3/533 with BeOS would cold-boot to the desktop in four goddamn seconds. Add in loading whatever browser it used and loading BF, we're probably talking 15 seconds, tops.

I don't even turn off my computer nowadays, so I dunno. Turning it off would take away precious looking-at-this-gorgeous-monitor time.

BeOS was definitely a good thing. I tried Zeta (the new version) but it never really progressed. You end up with a quick OS and the same 10-year-old interface

I thought it was blue steel.

Notice the left turn. It's Magnum.

Only ambiturners can pull off Magnum.

um, that appears to be a right turn, just saying.

BeOS was definitely a good thing. I tried Zeta (the new version) but it never really progressed. You end up with a quick OS and the same 10-year-old interface

Yeah, well... you wanna see a QUICK OS??? Try running Win 3.1 on a P-III or faster. LIGHTNING fast! Not that I'd wanna use it everyday, but... :p

I restarted my computer at home over lunch. When i get back tonight from work i'll let you know if it is up yet.

1:44.

I'm going to strip it down to the minumum required to boot.

Aw, hell, I'll just use Safe Mode. :D

Alright, I ended up having to shut it off.

55 seconds from boot to login to browser to BF.

[edit: Single-core 2GHz Athlon64, 1.5GB DDR400 RAM, Seagate Barracuda SATA2 hard drive, Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64, etc., etc.]

10 minutes 3 seconds. duo core 2.8 with 4 gigs ram...**** my computer is slow...

I'll race your computer.

From completely powered off to having BF on your browser page.


1 minute 2 seconds

MacBook Pro

Not a good race.

My Quad Xeon Xserve with 16 gigs of ram and a terabyte of fcal connected RAID storage takes its time booting up.

But my Mac can beat up your Mac. :-)

I got it down to 1:31.

w00t!!!1

It's an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, wih 4GB of Patriot DDR2-800, and 2x nVidia 8800 Ultras in SLI running Windows XP Pro SP2.

1 min. 29 sec. P4 2.66 512 meg ram XP

Same setup using Ubuntu 7.04 instead of XP, 59 secs.

I blacked out for a moment and it seemed like my computer restarted. Couldn't have been more than a few seconds.

Mine took about 30 minutes, but only because I turned on the computer and got bored of watching the time tick down so took a shower and ate breakfast.

39 seconds now.

Yay Leopard!

1m31sec 2.44 w/1gb ram xp. firefox + restore session

my computer is doing intervals.

it can't upset its training for racing in the "silly season".

Maybe 10 minutes. I turn on the computer, then go make coffee and an omelet in the kitchen, then return to type in my password to continue start-up, and then have breakfast while perusing Foo! :p