[Blink]

Having six laptops to mess with sounds like fun, giving each one a unique look for it's dedicated tasks especially

Now that I'm running a minimum of 16GB of ram (2 systems have 32GB), the 7th Gen Quad Core CPU, SSDs and the GTX1070, I don't know how I put up with my old systems for so long. A cold boot literally takes 10 seconds- with all applications, services etc loaded and ready to go.

Most SSDs are SATA, which is just the connection technology.
Has Microsoft improved their boot times yet? MacOS boots up in 7 seconds or less on 8gb of RAM and an i5; Linux takes even less time, as little as 1-2 seconds depending on the distro.