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Laptops and desktops today boot-up pretty slow, taking up to a minute or more to load the operating system and that’s mostly because of the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). A team of researchers from UEFI Forum aims to replace the actual BIOS with the UEFI interface (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), which will reduce boot times to a few seconds.

Laptops and desktops today take their time when it comes to boot an operating system, sometimes the boot time reaching 1 minute or more. This delay is caused by the BIOS interface that was first used in 1979 and is still used today. The BIOS works “behind” the operating and controls the interaction of hardware components. Therefore, the BIOS has the role of booting-up the OS as well as identifying and initializing hardware components.
 It’s possible that soon we are going to say goodbye to the old BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and replace it with the new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), according to the research team at UEFI Forum. This will allow computers to boot in a few seconds as Mark Doran, chief of UEFI Forum says:

  “At the moment, it can be 25- to 30 seconds of boot time before you see the first bit of OS sign-on. With UEFI, we’re getting it down to a handful of seconds. It’s not quite instant-on, but it is already a lot better than conventional BIOS can manage.”

 While the old BIOS is struggling to keep up with the technological advance, the new UEFI is more efficient: it can easily handle multiple USB devices as well as the last generation of touchscreens or gesture-based interfaces. Researchers are expecting computers to feature the new UEFI, but nobody knows exactly when this technology will come to the consumer market. The Asus N73 17.3-inch entertainment laptop is now available in the United States.

Newegg has started offering the N73JN-X1 model with the Intel Core i5-450M 2.4GHz processor, Nvidia GeForce GT 335M 1GB dedicated graphics, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard drive, and a DVD writer. According to earlier reports, the N73 has Bang & Olufsen ICEpower audio technology and USB 3.0, but these features are not listed on the product page.
Its LED-backlit display has a resolution of 1600×900 pixels.
The laptop also includes a 2MP web camera, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and an HDMI output.
The Asus N73JN-X1 runs Windows 7 Home Premium OS and is priced at $999.99.