W7 alone took more than half a minute to boot, so it looks promising. If the boot performance worsens at the same rate as W7, within a month instead of needing 2 minutes to boot my laptop I will need just one, so I'm really happy :) :)

I have an old HP DV7, Centrino 2 4Gb RAM. Windows 7 took around 1 minute to start. I counted around 20 seconds to be able to log into Windows 8. Take in account I only have installed VMWare Player :)