Lenovo laptop boots up in less than 10 seconds

CHINESE LAPTOP MAKER Lenovo has announced a sub 10 second boot up time for its Thinkpad T420 using its Enhanced Experience 2.0 (EE2).

Gone are the days of nipping off to the loo or brewing a much needed cuppa while your computer boots up. Lenovo's T420 will apparently boot up in less than 10 seconds, leaving you barely time enough to get comfortable in your chair.

The laptop is a Rapidboot Extreme model that has a proprietary BIOS and an Intel X25-M SSD. It also uses a cleaner default software setup and optimised drivers to achieve the fast bootup speed.

Dilip Bhatia, VP of the Think product group at Lenovo said, "Driving down boot time to sub-10 seconds on the ThinkPad T420s laptop results from applying precise, focused engineering to hardware and software interoperability."

Lenovo said that with EE2 users will be able to start their PC in an average of 20 seconds and shutdown 28 per cent faster than a typical Windows 7 PC. Windows can be resumed in less than one second, which Lenovo said is 36 per cent faster than the average.

Lenovo's Ideapad Y570 laptop also features the sub 10 second boot up time and will be available in June. If you can't wait that long then the Rapidboot Extreme model of the T420 will be available later this month. µ