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Sometimes I laugh at how spoilt technology has made me. I used to type video game code into my computer from a magazine every month, which often took days and sometimes didn’t work. Nowadays I’m whingeing because myXbox Series Xtakes about ten seconds to boot up. While this is clearly a first-world problem, it’d be nice if it were faster. And if you’re an Xbox Insider, now it is. The rest of us will need to wait for the autumn update.
The news comes via Xbox marketing director Josh Munsee, who confirmed onTwitterthat he’d commissioned animators to make a shorter boot animation to reflect the change: instead of taking roughly nine seconds to boot from cold, both the Xbox Series X andXbox Series Swill boot in around four seconds.
Just imagine what you could do with all that extra time! I’m only being slightly sarcastic: if you use your Xbox constantly with power options set for maximum environmental friendliness, those little seconds will soon add up to quite a lot of time. And that’s brilliant.
Everything is awesome
I’m currently playingFar Cry 5 on Game Passand enjoying load screens that disappear so quickly that I don’t have time to read the on-screen text. And I’ve been kicking back with a TV series I used to watch back in the 90s, completely taking for granted the fact that, like all thebest TVs, mySamsunghappily upsamples the original rather grainy HD into something crisper and clearer.
I hate to sound like a character from TheLegoMovie here, but this is one of the reasons I love writing about tech: every day somebody somewhere is working on something that might be fairly tiny in the great scheme of things but that will make my life that little bit nicer, more entertaining, more fun. It might just be an Xbox that boots four seconds faster, or – at last – the always-on display that’ll be in some versions of theiPhone 14. But collectively all of these little improvements make a big difference.
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