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bobsam | 8 years ago

No, but it is still quite fast.

On chromeOS network bring up is extremely fast. We are talking 1-3 seconds from cold boot to your emails have been synchronized.

My Ubuntu is almost as fast, if we subtract the 4 seconds the ugly bios screen adds.

No idea about Android, but did you read the end of the article?

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finnn|8 years ago

Are you saying that 1-3 seconds includes boot time? Like, time form pressing the power button to email syncing?

bobsam|8 years ago

Edit: yes, but it depends very much on hardware. My old arm chromebook was very fast to boot but the Intel ones seem to boot slower:

https://youtu.be/rsTyiMTYq9M

tbrock|8 years ago

It's better but definitely not "extremely fast".

The mac from 6 years ago does it in 300ms which is still 3-10x faster than what you suggest is the norm for your setup.

The difference between 300ms and 3 seconds is the tipping point for being annoyed when you cannot connect to the first page you visit.

bobsam|8 years ago

You misunderstood my numbers :)

Search "chromebook boot time" on YouTube. Checkout the comparisons between a $200 chromebook from 2013 and a $2000 MBP...

rektide|8 years ago

My NetworkManager still takes multiple seconds to connect to wifi, and that's definitely the same pathetic DHCP behavior. wpa_supplicant is super fast. Modern Ubuntu (17.04) is still stuck in this ancient, lethargic world.