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And yet I'm still able to fire up Chrome and bring up web sites within seconds... that was the point. :)

Have a look at this video I just shot of my laptop booting up. I'm using Chrome as the browser, and I had previously cleared the cache so there's no cheating by loading page elements from disk. By the time the desktop appears, the wi-fi network is already established. It only takes Chrome a...

It is possible that the slower boot times on HDD gave the network drivers more time to start things up, and thus you did not notice the delay. Upgrading to an SSD removed one bottleneck, but in my experience that simply exposes other bottlenecks in the system. Depends on what state the network...

Much of this depends on your hardware setup, and I don't just mean CPU speed and amount of RAM. If you're on wireless, it make take a bit of time for the laptop to associate with the AP. If your desktop communicates to your ISP over DHCP or PPPoE, there could be some delay establishing that...

It sounds like you are using the touch UI versions of both. Does the same thing happen if you switch to the desktop and launch IE from there? Is it perhaps waiting for your network interface to come up? I just tried it on my laptop (Thinkpad X220, Core i5-2520, 8GB RAM, 60GB OCZ Nocti SSD)...