On 08/11/2010 06:03 AM, Charl Wentzel wrote: > Does this mean that the one vendor's hardware is better than the > other's? Or could the Acer's boot time be improved? BIOS post speed and HD speed make a big difference. You can change the HD, perhaps. A good and fast SSD HD would make it both faster to boot and faster to run. Not cheap, however. Lee