[ubuntu-za] Acer vs HP boot time

[Charl Wentzel]

I have an Acer Aspire 5720Z (Intel T2330 Pentium Dual Core), running
10.04.  It boots in just under 1 minute.  I got the opportunity to
switch to an HP 530 also running 10.04 which booted in 30 seconds.  But
when I looked at the specs the HP had a Intel T2300 (Centrino Duo)
processor.  It also only had half the RAM.

So a 1 minute boot time is good and 30 seconds even better, but
"slightly weaker" processor booted in half the time.  This was quite
surprising?  Why such a big difference?  Ok, part of it is due to the
fact the that Acer BIOS takes almost 15 seconds to load vs the HP BIOS
that loads in just over 5 seconds.

Does this mean that the one vendor's hardware is better than the
other's?  Or could the Acer's boot time be improved?

Regards
Charl
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