14 DAY TRIAL // Research firm Soluto recently released a new report that analyzes the reliability of Windows computers currently on the market, but also the overall stability and performance improvements that landed on the world’s most popular operating system in the last couple of years.
Findings are pretty surprising, to say the least: Apple’s 13-inch MacBook is considered the most reliable Windows computer currently on the market, as it recorded a better score than Acer, Dell, and Lenovo devices.
In addition, Soluto has also released some statistics regarding the five parameters it tracked during the testing, including the frequency of app crashes, non-responsive events, BSODs per week, background running processes, and boot time.
The average figures are, again, surprising. The average Windows computer experiences 1.85 application crashes per week, as well as 1.18 non-responsive events every 7 days.
Microsoft has managed to reduce the number of BSODs per week to only 0.08, while the average number of background running processes reached 78.
The boot time, on the other hand, is the one that’s really worth our attention. According to Soluto, the average boot time for Windows computers is 167 seconds, while the minimum time recorded during its testing was 57 seconds. The most time need to get Windows up and running? 251 seconds.
“The average boot time is 167s. The points’ contribution of a model with boot time X was calculated as follows: (X-167)/60, based on the same rationale described in the background processes,” Soluto explains.
“There is no right or wrong way to measure crashes against boot time. We took a weighing decision that made sense to us. Each model in the top has all those values mentioned: we invite you to play with the numbers yourselves and reach alternative decisions.”
That sure sounds like a lot. Especially because Microsoft struggled to make Windows 7 and Windows 8 two fast operating systems capable of booting a lot faster than older releases. But 251 seconds to get into Windows is pretty shocking.