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Boot Time

Boot Time

Booting Ubuntu from the comparatively slow micro hard drive takes rather long. While an average computer requires between 20 and 60 seconds to boot into a desktop OS, Ubuntu took between four and five minutes.

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Header Cell - Column 0	Boot	OO Word Processor	Firefox
Asus NCL-DSDual Xeon 3.6 GHz1024 MB RAM	4:00	0:45	15s
Gigabyte 8i955X-RoyalP4 6601024 MB RAM	3:57	0:47	16s
Averatec NotebookPentium M 1300 MHz512 MB RAM	4:45	0:48	19s

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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.