Windows 7 boot time

i have a mba 13" 2010 max out. the boot time for my windows 7 is roughly the same as yours, 30-40 sec. it is ridiculously slow for an ssd but i couldnt figure out why and i rarely boot to windows so it didnt really bothered me.

 

For what it's worth, Windows 7 boot time for my Windows laptop (a lenovo) with OCZ Vertex2 SSD is just around 60 seconds.

 

I've never understood all of the angst about boot times on the Air. I boot MAYBE once every 2 months - are you shutting down every day?

 

It's about 25 seconds for me (compared to about 15 seconds for OS X). I have the 2011 11" i7/256GB model.

Note that one reason that Windows boots up a little more slowly is that the Boot Camp drivers don't support the fastest AHCI interface. That's why the drive scores a 6.9 instead of 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index, and why disk writes are actually faster in Parallels or VMWare Fusion than in Boot Camp. It also means TRIM doesn't work right in Windows 7.

60 seconds seems long, though.

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If you have a 2011, then you can download the updated Sandy Bridge graphics drivers from Intel's web site. 32-bit and 64-bit drivers are available.

 

64-bit. Have you tried reverting to the Boot Camp drivers?

 

Samsung.

 

you obviously don't use boot camp... But people who do use it, yea they reboot 1-5 times a day.

 

From the time I see the bars scrolling across the screen to my login screen takes about 18 seconds on my 2010 C2D 1.86GHz Toshiba equipped SSD MBA.

 

You are not the only one. My MBA i7 11" takes about 45 secs to boot up Win 7 in bootcamp. It boots up much faster using Parallels however.

On my Windows 7 desktop with SSD, it boots up in about 25-30 secs and on my Windows 7 laptop with SSD, it takes about 30 secs.

Must be the bootcamp drivers slowing the MBA down

Interested to see if you manage to fix this

 

My Dell boots up in about 40 seconds, and it's a 4500RPM HDD. If you have an SSD, there's definitely something wrong (but I'd blame Apple's crappy bootcamp drivers, not your machine specifically).

 

Have you selected Windows as the Startup Disk in BootCamp - If you don't do that the Apple firmware spends 5-10 seconds searching for bootable partitions every boot. Hopefully that's it and not some other weird disk/driver issue.

 

I use a bootcamp partiton in Parallels. Why in the world would you reboot multiple times per day?

 

Same computer here and same time

 

On the Lenovo Crap-pads at school it takes well over a minute for Windows 7 to boot... And those netbooks have SSDs! Meanwhile, my MacBook Pro takes about 30 secs to boot off a regular 7200RPM HDD.

Weird, huh?

 

When you power up, does it go automatically into Windows or OS X? If it's OS X, then you select the startup disk from System Preferences. There's an icon for "Startup Disk" in the 4th line of icons titled "System."

If it goes into Windows automatically (i.e. you need to hold down the option key to get into OS X), then it's already set up.

It's about 30 seconds from when I select "Windows" from the Boot Camp menu. I have a login screen for Windows so that adds a few seconds, which is how I arrived at 25 seconds.

I installed the updated drivers from Intel's website. I also installed the EFI update and haven't had issues, though some people claim they have. I also install all the OS X updates and recommend you do the same. They include security updates, plus bug fixes for OS X. 10.7.2 should be coming next week and will fix some more bugs and add iCloud support.

 

Parallels can't do everything boot camp does .
You would reboot multiple times per day if you want to play a game that only exists for windows. YAYAYA MBA isn't for gaming, but still... You get my point.

A question about Lion: If swiping 2 fingers horizontally in safari does back/forward, how do you scroll a page horizontally?

 

You can use BootRacer to test your Windows boot speed. It's free and will help you know what time it takes to windows logon and to windows desktop.

http://www.greatis.com/bootracer/

I don't have my 2011 MBA (i5 1.7 GHz / 4GB / 256 Samsung SSD) right now with me, but I'll run the test after and I'll share the results.