And with any luck they might get Vista down to just an hour or two

In coming months, the world’s major PC makers plan to introduce a new generation of quick-start computers

[From In a New Age of Impatience, Cutting PC Start Time - NYTimes.com]

(Yeah, well, to be scrupulously fair, it boots up in only a few minutes but then it spends the rest of the week on updates. But what's the rush?)