How long in average does it take for x220 to comletely boot?

[petko8680]

See if someone is willing to loan you theirs before buying a set IMO.
BTW have you changed the boot order in the BIOS to have the HDD accessed first?

Hi, haven't done it as far as i remember. I was thinking about same thing yesterday and forgot to check. But is that so boot-time consuming as the time from power off state till it comes to "Starting windows" message is about 10secs.? BTW which button is the one to enter BIOS on thinkpad- f10 or f8?

[Neil]

F1 to enter BIOS setup.

[Bánh mì]

IMO, your marginal utility from pursuing this further is zero. And installing (especially assuming you will have to pay for it) from a Lenovo Restore DVD is a waste of money that could and should be channeled toward acquiring an SSD instead. Aight.

[piledriver]

Without question get Windows 8. The speed of the new OS coupled with the upgrade
price of $40.00 (in the US) make it a no brainer.
Luckily there are free start button add-on programs available for the desktop which
make it pretty much a Windows 7 machine except faster.

Tim S

I only have a lowly X200T, but with a Seagate Momentus XT 750GB installed it boots to usable desktop with Win8 (classicshell rocks) in ~15 seconds, including finger swipe. Mageia 3 (Cauldron) boots fully to KDE//idle HDD in same time, and Android-x86 4.2.2 boots from the HDD in ~8 seconds.
(got the pen working, too, in everything but Evernote so far )

Even the X300 manages win8 in 15 seconds off the 5 year old factory SSD.
Hopefully Seagate will start shipping some hybrid thin drives soon.

[mpcook]

I know it's been a while, but if you haven't solved it by now, uninstall Lenovo's RapidBoot, it slows down the X220 boot (in my case) by about 35 seconds. Ironic, yes?

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

Without question get Windows 8. The speed of the new OS coupled with the upgrade
price of $40.00 (in the US) make it a no brainer.
Luckily there are free start button add-on programs available for the desktop which
make it pretty much a Windows 7 machine except faster.

Tim S

Yeah, people keep saying that... but my Windows 7 machine resumes from sleep just as fast and doesn't need any 3rd party stuff to get the UI right...

The 320GB 5400rpm HDD's are probably rather slow. Both in troughput as in access time. Definitely get a SSD in the X220; can you pick up an mSata Crucial M500 for not that much.