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Originally Posted by damien c
The other thing is look at Apple with there laptop's you lift the lid and they are there and ready instantly but, do it with a windows laptop and you have to wait so the issue is also down to window's not being optimised fully to use the hardware fully to speed thing's up.
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That's nothing to do with being optimised (although OSX is fairly well optimised for the limited amount of hardware it supports).
What it is more to do with is that, by default, Mac laptops suspend to RAM when you close the lid (they do hibernate when the battery gets too low to maintain suspended mode). Windows defaults to hibernating to HDD when the lid is closed on a laptop.
Configure both kinds of laptop to do the same thing (be it suspend to RAM or hibernate), and you'll find they resume at roughly the same speed.
From a cold start, however, I personally find OSX 10.6 starts faster than Windows 7.