Do laptops boot quicker than desktops ?

[Parvesh Khatri]

Hello everyone, 

I saw some vids on boot time , most of the laptops started in about 10 seconds and my desktop starts in 15 seconds having same or higher specs than laps. I wonder if laptops boot faster .

[Guest]

Boot times mostly depend on 2 factors:

1. Storage speed.

2. Number of things your system starts with.

My PC with a super fast m.2 drive boots in 8.2 seconds.

[IAmAndre]

Long story short, the format doesn't matter. Every laptop and desktop is different so you can't make it a general rule.

[Parvesh Khatri]

2 minutes ago, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

Boot times mostly depend on 2 factors:

1. Storage speed.

2. Number of things your system starts with.

My PC with a super fast m.2 drive boots in 8.2 seconds.

Is this timing starts from power button to desktop? 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Parvesh Khatri said:

Is this timing starts from power button to desktop? 

Fast boot option in BIOS should reduce boot time around 5 seconds. Also i'm not talking about cold boot but shut down -> start sequence which in Windows is more like hibernation.

[Vishera]

With average consumer grade components there should be little to no difference,unless you use an Intel Celeron or Pentium CPUs.

[Kilrah]

Usually the difference comes mostly from the time spent in the BIOS before the OS even starts to load and that depends on the BIOS, onboard components and enabled features.

For example on my Z390 board if I want to be able to wake on LAN I have to enable PXE boot too, which brings the NIC's boot screen as well, ahich adds a good 5 secs to BIOS time. 

My Rampage V board with a bunch of non-integrated components and RAID enabled goes through 3 screens at boot and gets >30 second BIOS times...

Since laptops tend not to have such fancy features they'll usually spend less time in these things.