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What is your new iMac boot time?

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coronas

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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?
 
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.
 
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?
 
My early 2009 iMac has a long white/gray screen time too; I think it's a general problem with Macs with Nvidia chipsets.
 
PurrBall said:
My early 2009 iMac has a long white/gray screen time too; I think it's a general problem with Macs with Nvidia chipsets.
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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
coronas said:
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.
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Chipset != graphics card
 
My new 27 inch imac is just as bad

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.
 
ephraimross said:
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.
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Giver a few days to build up the boot caches ;-) then it will become quicker over a relatively shot period of time.
 
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.
 
VanNess said:
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.
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Wow! My startup time was around a minute, then I tried this and it booted in 25 seconds. Thanks!
 
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 😕



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 ?
 
MacHamster68 said:
... whats the point of a dual core or quad core processor 😕
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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 said:
About 15 seconds total from pushing the power button on my i7 with my OCZ Vertex SSD. 🙂
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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😀
 
iSee said:
To speed up the stuff you do constantly throughout the day...
(I can't speak for you, but most don't reboot too often. 😉 )
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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
 
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.
 
bring back thread

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.
 
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