Dell Inspiron Duo: Interesting Design, Slow Boot?

Microsoft’s Windows Experience Blog’s Ben Rudolph got his hands on the Dell Inspiron Duo convertible touchscreen netbook and ran it through some timing tests.

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The Inspiron Duo features a dual-core Atom N550 processor, 2GB RAM and 320GB hard drive. Ben reported that it took 36.5 seconds to boot, 17.5 seconds to shutdown (with no apps open), 9 seconds to sleep, and 1.5 seconds to wake. The two most important measurements to me are the cold boot time and time to wake.

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