From a NY Times Bestseller

[Ben Scott]

On 7/11/06, Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com> wrote:
>     She plugged in her laptop and booted it up.  At the insistence of
>     her husband, Bill, she had recently switched from a PC to a Mac,
>     and now the boot-up process took a tenth the time--zero to sixty
>     in 8.9 seconds instead of two and a half plodding minutes.

  And my Dell Precision 380 with 1 GB of RAM and a 2.8 GHz processor
boots way faster than my ten year old PowerMac 8300, amazingly enough.

  Do you get compensation from Apple for posting advertisements?  If
so, I need to call Microsoft.  I'm sure they pay way better...

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-- Ben