Didn't Bert post a video for a Windows 7 machine with ridiculous specs? It was still 3 seconds to load at least.
It was more like 8.2 seconds. Here is the video again.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/gdv13abrv45synmx5fmz.aviCertainly, upgrading your computer will speed anything up. I have to say that it is usually not this slow, but realize that this is a computer which costs over $2500, has the fastest hard drive you can buy, an incredibly good motherboard, a video card that scores 7.9 on both WEI scores, 8GB of RAM running in dual channel mode and an i7 2600k processor. And, you can still get this. And, oh yes, it is WIN 7 Pro.