What is your new iMac boot time?

[coronas]

After reading all the posts about issues with the new iMac I just wanna verify if some other people have the same boot time as I do. It currently takes me a minute and ten seconds to boot my 27-inch iMac and I find that pretty long. This is without any peripherals connected. What is yours?

[Bulldog3777]

About the same for my 21.5. The white screen stays on longer than my MBP.

[53x12]

I am guessing you guys don't have a password on startup then? I will let you know how long it takes to start up my quad core when I get it next week. My current 3.06GHz MBP takes exactly 30 seconds to startup without password enabled.

[coronas]

No, password is not enabled. 53x12 I guess you are using Snow Leopard on your MBP. Any ideas why it takes so long to boot the new iMac?

[53x12]

No, password is not enabled. 53x12 I guess you are using Snow Leopard on your MBP. Any ideas why it takes so long to boot the new iMac?

Yes I am running SL. No devices attached.

[Badger^2]

I dont think I have shut any off my Macs of in months. :rolleyes:

[Shivetya]

I dont think I have shut any off my Macs of in months. :rolleyes:

Ever since sleep was perfected in both windows and mac I don't recall ever turning off a computer

[PurrBall]

My early 2009 iMac has a long white/gray screen time too; I think it's a general problem with Macs with Nvidia chipsets.

[coronas]

My early 2009 iMac has a long white/gray screen time too; I think it's a general problem with Macs with Nvidia chipsets.

I have the ATI chipset and a very long white/grey screen time too.

I usually don't switch my mac of either since there is no need. But it would be interesting to know why the boot time is so long on the iMac.

[mpuck972]

I timed my 27" the other night and it is just under 30 seconds. I'm not having any of the issues reported by others either. YouTube playback is fine.

Don't have anything plugged in, and using the mouse and keyboard that came with it. Al I have installed on it is iWork.

[27InchMac]

20-25 seconds....very quick

[VicX]

mine 24 secs to reach full screen
wow.. just luv it
compared with my 2 yr-old thinkpad... 1 min, well it takes the same time (24 secs) to shut down though

[PurrBall]

I have the ATI chipset and a very long white/grey screen time too.

I usually don't switch my mac of either since there is no need. But it would be interesting to know why the boot time is so long on the iMac.

Chipset != graphics card

[ephraimross]

I wondered if I got a bad machine at first.

I timed mine for comparisons. Nothing external attached, a virtually fresh install. Here we go:

1:09 for startup.
6 seconds just for the chime
44 seconds until the "apple" appears on the white screen

Weirdly slow.

[BelowTheBelt]

I wondered if I got a bad machine at first.

I timed mine for comparisons. Nothing external attached, a virtually fresh install. Here we go:

1:09 for startup.
6 seconds just for the chime
44 seconds until the "apple" appears on the white screen

Weirdly slow.

Giver a few days to build up the boot caches ;-) then it will become quicker over a relatively shot period of time.

[VanNess]

For the new 21 or 27 iMacs with long startup times, go to system prefs and select startup disk, then select you boot drive (usually Macintosh HD). Try rebooting afterwards.

Usually a long wait at the grey screen (before the Apple logo and spinning pinwheel) means the startup volume hasn't been selected and the system is searching for a valid startup volume.

[Rarney22]

For the new 21 or 27 iMacs with long startup times, go to system prefs and select startup disk, then select you boot drive (usually Macintosh HD). Try rebooting afterwards.

Wow! My startup time was around a minute, then I tried this and it booted in 25 seconds. Thanks!

[MacHamster68]

so there is no gain in boottime speed since my iMac G3 700 with 768mb running osx tiger boots in exact 27 seconds .. from pressing the start button until the desktop appears ..ok dashboard and spotlight are disabled...but....ethernet connection and printer and external harddrive connected
whats the point of a dual core or quad core processor if they need the same time to boot :confused:



dont understand that wrong now again it contains a bit sarcasm
what do boot times say about your computer ? will you bin it,scrap it , return it , because it needs 5 or 10 seconds longer for booting then another one ?

[iSee]

... whats the point of a dual core or quad core processor :confused:

To speed up the stuff you do constantly throughout the day...
(I can't speak for you, but most don't reboot too often. ;) )

I had the 40 sec delay (i7 iMac--currently being exchanged) before the apple logo would appear. I made it go away by resetting the pram. Might have accomplished the same thing as setting the startup disk in a more roundabout way... I'm not sure.

[WilliamG]

About 15 seconds total from pushing the power button on my i7 with my OCZ Vertex SSD. :)

[Malivar]

Like 26 seconds on my 21.5", after SL reinstall.

[i7QuadCoreMania]

About 15 seconds total from pushing the power button on my i7 with my OCZ Vertex SSD. :)

About the same for me here, 15 secs from the push of the button, takes 3-5 seconds for the chime to come up.

overall I am extremely happy with the quick boot times of my X25M:D

[MacHamster68]

To speed up the stuff you do constantly throughout the day...
(I can't speak for you, but most don't reboot too often. ;) )



tthats exact what i mean i usually put my macs to sleep and wake them with a mouseklick and surprise they wake up instantly
so why measuring the boottime then , it says nothing about the actual performance of a computer , as you see my sweet little imac g3 has a equal boottime as some 27" imacs , does that mean the g3's performance is equal to a quad core iMac then

[RooDBwoY]

mine takes a while actually. stays on the white screen for what seems like an age, then after the apple symbol's gone it's really quick.

doesn't really bother me as half the time I just put it to sleep instead.

[alexk82]

just seeing if there is any update to this "issue". i recently got a mbp and after seeing that boot up I got more concerned about my slow boot up mac. especially since the apple logo doesn't appear for a couple (20-30) seconds.

[slicecom]

Set a boot drive in System Preferences and the white screen will only last a second or two.

[Rhalliwell1]

1:07 for the iMac in my sig. Lots of peripherals though. Boot drive set.

[Lifequest]

Staying on topic: 30s

Trolling: Funny how many complain of 60s boot up times or even 30s for that matter, then loads MR just to complain about it.
New Q: how long does it take you to whinge about your slow boot up time on Macrumors? :D
If you have 5 minutes, I'm sure you can wait the extra 30s.

I see no significant need to boot up in less than 30s.
During that time, I tidy my desk, put that pen back into the pen holder. Fix the calculator so that it is dead parallel with the desk corner. Stare at my God-given good looks in the reflective panel that is my sexy iMac. Ahh...booted.

30s is perfect. Otherwise I'd have a messy table and no time to be a self centered bast*rd that i am.

=D GOOD DAY TO YOU.

[mdoyle]

i timed my imac i5 and it takes 35 secs to boot without password

[sanjuvarma]

I have an i5 with Intel X25-M in it. At most times, the chime takes 8-9 seconds which is weird. From the chime/apple logo it takes 15 seconds for Firefox/Entourage/Adium and around 10 menu bar items to load up.

So totally - 22-25 seconds. I don't know why the chime time (black screen to grey screen) takes so long.

Should I be concerned?

[Rhalliwell1]

Staying on topic: 30s

Trolling: Funny how many complain of 60s boot up times or even 30s for that matter, then loads MR just to complain about it.
New Q: how long does it take you to whinge about your slow boot up time on Macrumors? :D
If you have 5 minutes, I'm sure you can wait the extra 30s.

I see no significant need to boot up in less than 30s.
During that time, I tidy my desk, put that pen back into the pen holder. Fix the calculator so that it is dead parallel with the desk corner. Stare at my God-given good looks in the reflective panel that is my sexy iMac. Ahh...booted.

30s is perfect. Otherwise I'd have a messy table and no time to be a self centered bast*rd that i am.

=D GOOD DAY TO YOU.

I wish i shared your mentality. 1:07 boot time and just look at my desk.... I suppose i don't have any excuse! :(

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8810/dsc0020ot.jpg (http://img46.imageshack.us/i/dsc0020ot.jpg/)

[vraptor65]

For the new 21 or 27 iMacs with long startup times, go to system prefs and select startup disk, then select you boot drive (usually Macintosh HD). Try rebooting afterwards.

Usually a long wait at the grey screen (before the Apple logo and spinning pinwheel) means the startup volume hasn't been selected and the system is searching for a valid startup volume.

This is solid advice...

My new i7 was taking about a minute before I selected the start up volume. Now it takes about 25 sec. Very satisfied...

Thx

[drewdle]

One minute and five seconds on my "new" iMac. Well, new to me. :D

[appledyl]

I run an iMac G4 and my boot time is seven minutes. :D :D :D beat that!

[drewdle]

I run an iMac G4 and my boot time is seven minutes. :D :D :D beat that!

How did you manage that? We have similar iMacs, only yours is faster and has 50% more memory! What on earth are you loading? :)

Oh, and sorry for the threadjack everyone. Guess G4s wasn't the original topic.

[citizenal]

About 30 seconds till my desktop shows. :)

[Raima]

About the same for me here, 15 secs from the push of the button, takes 3-5 seconds for the chime to come up.

overall I am extremely happy with the quick boot times of my X25M:D

Same. Mines 18s from pressing the power button with my external data drive connected. Using a G.Skill Falcon II.

[Vantage Point]

New, mine took 56 seconds to completely boot. I reinstalled the OS from the included disk as per Apple advice for a problem I had and the boot time dropped to 35 seconds.

Also, it takes the same time, 35 secs, for my MB to boot

[definitive]

have any of you tried reinstalling your snow leopard to see if that would help? i know i'm not on a new imac (early 2009), and mine takes under 30 seconds to load.

[staralfur]

30 seconds exactly. After a lifetime of windows slow startups this actually turns me on a little bit.

[Stealthipad]

None of my Apple products boot faster than my Thinkpad W510 with 256gb SSD. From dead cold the unit boots and CPU activity drops to 2% and is ready to work in about 30 seconds. That is faster than my iPad, iMac and MBP:eek:

[Jaap]

Mine is exactly 15.5 seconds.

iMac i7 with OCZ Vertex SSD (fw 1.5)

[arathorn8]

For the new 21 or 27 iMacs with long startup times, go to system prefs and select startup disk, then select you boot drive (usually Macintosh HD). Try rebooting afterwards.

Usually a long wait at the grey screen (before the Apple logo and spinning pinwheel) means the startup volume hasn't been selected and the system is searching for a valid startup volume.

I second vraptor65: this is solid advice indeed.
I noticed a 30 second difference in boot times of my 27" iMac in the office and at home... and just solved this in a jiffy :)

[aliensporebomb]

Thanks for the speedup hints. My i7 and my wife's 3.06 c2d will be happy.

[lyrrad721]

12 seconds without password with my 2.93 GHz i7 iMac o_O

[kazmac]

For the new 21 or 27 iMacs with long startup times, go to system prefs and select startup disk, then select you boot drive (usually Macintosh HD). Try rebooting afterwards.

Usually a long wait at the grey screen (before the Apple logo and spinning pinwheel) means the startup volume hasn't been selected and the system is searching for a valid startup volume.

That was what worked for me when I asked a few days ago. Now the start up on my new 21.5 iMac is about 5 seconds from gray screen to desktop if that. :)

[ravinder08]

This is solid advice...

My new i7 was taking about a minute before I selected the start up volume. Now it takes about 25 sec. Very satisfied...

Thx

SAME! about 20 secs now

Thanx:D

[dlewis23]

It takes about 25 seconds to boot my 27" iMac.

[GordysGadgets]

This is solid advice...

My new i7 was taking about a minute before I selected the start up volume. Now it takes about 25 sec. Very satisfied...

Thx

On the phone with Apple support today over another issue. My new Quad 2.93 SSD had me so impressed with how fast it booted. It isn't that I reboot more that once a month...maybe. I noticed after the Apple "Tech" had me do some repair stuff for itunes that was hanging, that the reboot was way slower.
So while I had them on the phone and thought maybe a problem I asked about this. The guy had me to disc utility verify etc. All checked out finally he did the punt of archive reinstall. I figured what the heck and did it.
Then the white screen just hung for 30 seconds before the apple logo.

I then read this post set target to boot from SSD and boom it's WAY faster than ever.
If only the techs were trained as well as the folks on this forum!
Instead of calling Apple I'm checking this forum for help next time!
Thanks!