Is the configuration too powerful but slower?
To understand the relationship between boot speed and computer configuration, you must first know what programs are being executed behind the scenes between pressing the power button and entering the operating system.
In fact, after pressing the button to turn on the computer, the motherboard BIOS will first initialize the CPU and memory, and then the computer hardware will perform a self-test, starting with the CPU, and then check whether the memory, graphics card, etc. are normal. After passing the test, the driver will be loaded and the operating system will be entered. interface
In other words, what determines the boot speed is the motherboard BIOS and hardware self-test speed. The more hardware there is, the more time the BIOS initialization process will take. At the same time, the larger the system memory, the longer the initialization will take. In addition to the memory and graphics card, the computer's hard drive, sound card, network card and other devices need to load drivers. , the higher the configuration of the computer, the richer the hardware, resulting in longer self-test time and slower booting.
The faster boot speed is all because of the SSD!
In fact, most players mistakenly believe that higher configuration = faster boot time, mainly due to the new solid-state drives launched in the past 10 years, that is, SSD hard drives. SSD has the advantage of high-speed reading and writing, but it is also relatively expensive and has a small capacity. Therefore, when it was first launched, only high-end computers would use it, while low-end machines continued to use relatively cheap HDD mechanical hard drives.
Since SSDs can read drivers and systems much faster than HDDs, high-end computers at the time could often boot up within 10 seconds, leading many users to mistakenly believe that fast boot times were a sign of powerful computer equipment.
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Later, merchants also used this thinking model to deepen the erroneous association of "fast boot = high performance". In addition to raising the price of built-in computers, some unscrupulous merchants installed SSDs with smaller capacities in low-configuration computers to demonstrate "extremely fast boot". Letting users who are not familiar with the computer market pay high prices is really one of the practices of "black shops" to make huge profits.