Not surprising since this is a floppy-based system. An HD-based A3000 cold booted faster than most modern systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-e3w7Hh9eU

Also gp talks about input responsiveness (e.g. key and mouse input), and that has indeed much less latency on those old-school home computers than on modern systems where each input event goes through layers and layers of abstraction bloat before causing a visible change on the display.