Comment 1 for bug 677088

What hardware was this ? We selected a dell mini 10 as the reference hardware and we are working towards improving the startup time (and general performance improvements). Initial graphs are here:
http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/software-center/mini10-startup/startup-times.png
(note that this is with a warm hdd cache).

A 60s startup sounds like something is seriously wrong.