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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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My experience has been that the more high-end my computer is, the slower it starts. At least for the BIOS, Windows has loaded very quickly since SSDs (Got my first one around 12 years ago).
Fancy motherboards, memory training, it's a bit sad that a 10 year old budget laptop can get to Windows quicker. Even though I don't really care about the extra seconds of course.
Hell, my new work laptop is a ThinkPad and Lenovo had issues with their BIOS for the entire year. Startup can take over a minute for that crap, despite being a $3000 machine.
Laptops tend to have a minimized/limited uefi implementation that initializes and boot the bootloader faster.
My 2002 Pentium M (desktop) with Intel motherboard booted instantly. I liked to use it long after it was obsolete because it booted so fast.
Modern pcs are a hundred times faster and yet take so much longer. And don't get me started on why Windows 10 takes so long from password to desktop.
Telemetry loading 🤣😂
Yeah, is this maybe a ThinkPad thing? My work ThinkPad is also on the higher end side, don't remember the exavy price, but was also above 3000€. And my 7 year old low class Asus gaming notebook (bought it for 1000€) without an SSD boots just as fast as the ThinkPad.
Lenovo messed up the BIOS and still hasn't fixed it properly yet. It's also random as hell, I had 2 minute BIOS boot times. Went to the options and saved without changing anything, suddenly it got down to 30s.
Total mess. A work colleague also had issues and Lenovo support told them to downgrade the BIOS to an older version. Didn't help. Next ticket they refused support because the laptop didn't have the newest version installed, lol.
Afaik you can turn off memory after every boot.