I remember computers used to take sooo long to start up, that you can press the power button and go make yourself a sandwich. What changed? Hardware got faster obviously, but software also got more complicated and there are more of them to load up no?
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Hardware has gotten so fast that the more complex software’s startup is still nothing compared to what it can do. Especially with SSDs or Solid State Drives, they’re a *lot* faster than modern hard drives, which themselves are a lot faster than the hard drives of yesteryear. You can boot up Windows in just a few seconds, whereas with a typical HDD it can take a minute or two, and even the most beastly set ups from 20-30 years ago it’d take several minutes to boot up Windows versions from back then.
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