I tend to be anti-apple and PC-agnostic - not really a PC fan, not really a detractor. That said.
I have a Lenovo laptop (work) (XP) and a retired mac desktop (G4, G5 I don’t really know or care) that I use to run VNC at work.
Starting up the Lenovo Desktop and getting all my apps to a running state can take 5 to 10 mins on a good day.
Starting the Mac from a cold start takes maybe 30 secs max.
I wish Windoze could get their products to start in a reasonable time frame.
Of course I work around this by putting the laptop into sleep mode and to unsleep the thing like really just mere seconds.
But it really shouldn’t take forever for Windoze to boot up (or shut down for that matter which takes about as long).
The speed of the boot process in Windows 7 is faster, to be certain, but there’s a host of things about Windows 7 that are infuriating in the extreme.