When I got off my plane from Anaheim in Chicago, I went to the nearest power station to recharge my devices for the next leg to Dublin. I noticed something interesting; my Windows 8 (Developer Preview release) slate PC booted up much faster than my 10 month old iPhone 4. I wondered how that would compare with my iPad (1). One of the perks of the iPad has been quick access to the device when I needed it. It seemed like I needed to do a comparison test.
The first thing I did was test the cold boot times of both devices.
It seems like the Windows 8 slate, now taking advantage of UEFI hardware, is faster at cold booting than the iPad.
Most of the time, these portable devices are carried around in a sleep state. Next I decided to test a warm wakeup.
It seems to me that Microsoft has managed to knock down that criticism of Windows.