Di11on Is the boot animation loaded synchronously or asynchronously? I.e. am I actually waiting for the nice sparkles to zip around the triangle before I can get down to business? :-) It takes a lot of time... is it present when you buy a license? Can you bypass it?
IKS The bootanimation is stopped as soon as the system is booted, so there is no additional waiting. If you bypass the animation, you will be waiting with a black screen.
