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I bet that is the fastest laptop available, and the OS is loading the absolute basics. When you load it up with all your anti-virus and security software it will definitely take longer. And all that it's loaded is 5 icons basically lol.
the video has been edited at 34 seconds. It hurts their claims quite a bit
For those of you wondering, here are the specs of that laptop: it's a HP EliteBook 8640p (Intel® Core™ i7-620M, 8GB RAM, 160GB SSD). Taken from Steven Sinofsky's comment in the B8 blog.
ps im sure windows 7 does that same speed with programmes installed
My Windows 7 PC loads up in under 20 seconds so I can see that being plausible.
I cant wait to try windows 8 really like how wp7 works and windows 8 looks to add to that ms have really raised there game over te last few years and i can see ms having a very bright 10 years as alot of things they are now making work and work very well. Xbox wp7 whs2011 forefront endpoint sharepoint 2010 office 10 and many more.
I do wonder what impact windows 8 will have on the tablet market as much as i really like my xoom i would give it up for a os that can do as much as a windows pc that was as finger friendly as my xoom.