I was marveling over the boot times I get on this Samsung Series 9 Windows laptop, somewhere between 8 and 10 seconds, when it occurred to me that my Andriod phone, a fairly high-end Samsung Galaxy Nexus, doesn't seem to boot that fast. So, I decided to time it.
First I reset the phone to factory defaults, just in case there was something in there slowing the startup. (Note, I didn't do this to my Windows laptop.) Then I timed three boot ups and averaged them.
The average time to the unlock screen was 26 seconds! That's almost three times as long as it takes to boot Windows 7 on this Series 9 laptop. A top of the line Android phone running the latest stock Google Android OS shouldn't take three times as long as that "pig of an OS" Windows to boot on a medium performance laptop, right?
Now, I don't re-boot my phone or my laptop very often, so it's really the wake from sleep that matters and here the phone beats the laptop with a one second wake compared to a two to three second wake for the laptop. Still, phones need to boot faster :)