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It's an immutable law of the universe that consumer computers will always take at least 30-45 seconds to boot. If yours is faster, wait a few years... the developers will allow enough regressions to slip in that it'll go back up again.


Every time I’ve had a computer that would boot faster than that, it seems I’d be stuck with a monitor that would take 30 seconds to come on and decide to display something.


Probably because your monitor’s OS is booting


I should start thingsthathaveanOSandshouldnt.net or something.


My Kaypro 1 boots into CP/M right away if the screen is already warmed up.


The hack around this would be to use your smartphone as your computer. Connect a keyboard to it. Do heavy stuff in the cloud.


Or run the 68k mac OS 9 in emulation. It's fun to watch it boot up like lightning.




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