Why no Mac OS X startup progress bar?

benlee

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 27, 2007

• #1

Why doesn't Leopard have it?
or is it just me?

 

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aethelbert

macrumors 601

• Oct 27, 2007

• #2

Leopard's been loading a lot faster for me. So much faster that a progress bar would only be up for about a second.

 

polishmacuser

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 27, 2007

• #3

ive noticed at the apple store 🙂 your not crazy 😀

 

benlee

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 27, 2007

• #4

akonradi said:

Leopard's been loading a lot faster for me. So much faster that a progress bar would only be up for about a second.

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I have a MBP 2.2 GHZ C2D with Leopard and a MB 2Ghz CD with Tiger. I started them up at the same time and the MBP fully loaded just a second faster.

 

flopticalcube

macrumors G4

• Oct 27, 2007

• #5

Much faster boot up for me as well. I didn't notice until you mentioned it.

 

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aethelbert

macrumors 601

• Oct 27, 2007

• #6

benlee said:

I have a MBP 2.2 GHZ C2D with Leopard and a MB 2Ghz CD with Tiger. I started them up at the same time and the MBP fully loaded just a second faster.

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Did you do a fresh install?

 

benlee

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 27, 2007

• #7

akonradi said:

Did you do a fresh install?

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yes a fresh install then transferred over from external my home folder and music and documents

 

blackscooby

macrumors 6502

• Nov 1, 2007

• #8

I really miss that start up bar ! Shame it's not there now 🙁

 

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nineteentwelve

macrumors regular

• Nov 1, 2007

• #9

I never relied on the progress bar at startup because it was timed by the speed of the previous startup. Just a little animation to keep you 'entertained' while you wait for OS X to load.

But like others, I never noticed it either.

 

richard.mac

macrumors 603

• Nov 1, 2007

• #10

i only saw the progress bar for 2 sec in tiger so i dont care that its gone in leopard... no biggie. leopard actually boots up about 10 sec slower than tiger on my MBP and i did a clean install. anyone know why? i might delete all the system cache and defrag the system and see if that works.