{"id":11809,"date":"2011-09-18T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2011-09-18T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:56:09","slug":"comparing-windows-8-and-ipad-start-up-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11809","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Windows 8 And iPad Start Up Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.&#160; I noticed something interesting; my Windows 8 (Developer Preview release) slate PC booted up much faster than my 10 month old iPhone 4.&#160; I wondered how that would compare with my iPad (1).&#160; One of the perks of the iPad has been quick access to the device when I needed it.&#160; It seemed like I needed to do a comparison test.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I did was test the cold boot times of both devices.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gNnYU_BjBR0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It seems like the Windows 8 slate, now taking advantage of UEFI hardware, is faster at cold booting than the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, these portable devices are carried around in a sleep state.&#160; Next I decided to test a warm wakeup.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UI7z8CcMM-4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that Microsoft has managed to knock down that criticism of Windows.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:824851d7-4d49-4791-965c-6ed25c1a2a81\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&#160; I noticed something interesting; my Windows 8 (Developer Preview release) slate PC booted up much faster than my 10 month old iPhone 4.&#160; I wondered how that would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comparing Windows 8 And iPad Start Up Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}