How long does your MP take to boot?

Doesn't matter to me, I rarely reboot it.

 

2009 octo 2.26 mac pro 6gb ram with OCZ Colossus 120gb SSD takes 14 secs to boot.

 

Maybe 3 minutes?

 

I had to troubleshoot a bad memory stick recently, and noticed that with more memory, the longer the delay before the chime starts.

So this delay must reflect a power-on memory test.

 

I don't think it is a problem- just normal operation. The logical conclusion is the more ram you have the longer the power on memory scan.

 

I don't think it's really a problem… per say

I also don't shut my computer off that much if at all, but yes removing memory did decrease my boot time. Removing HDDs did as well and so did removing PCIe cards. I can't just take out addons for a fast boot.

 

Mine behaves the same way. It takes a good 10+ seconds before the chime sounds when I press the power button on my new 2.66 12-core. On my old 2006 Quad core, it chimed within 5 seconds usually. However, after the chime it definitely boots much faster than my old one. Of course, I have a OWC 120GB SSD as my boot drive on the 12-core, so that helps a lot. And just for reference, I have 24GB RAM (4x4GB, 4x2GB), all internal bays full with HDs, and a RocketRAID card installed.

 

I've only got 3 2GB sticks in mine and I can certainly say it boots much quicker than 17-18 seconds until chime. I've got an SSD in the 2nd drive bay now, but I had it in the optical bay for a few days and didn't notice any longer boot times.

 

The boot process can vary significantly based on the firmware and OS's need to enumerate, initialize, test, and load drivers for various components and peripherals. USB devices are particularly bad in my experience. Even the responsiveness of your router in assigning an IP address can be a factor.

 

As others have stated, the more hardware you have, ram hard drives, etc the longer it will take the computer to start up.

 

Memory, number of hard drives and other hardware will definitely lengthen the boot time. My 1.1 Pro takes about 45 - 55 seconds from power on. But I also have several programs that are loaded at startup too. Six drives, 13 gb ram and other hardware, and sometimes external drives too.

 

I have the clone of your machine. In fact it was shipped the same day by Apple via Texas before heading back North....

I don't have a solid state drive or massive RAM (yet) and it sits for a long time after power on before the chime plays, similar to what you document. I don't think this has anything to do with the hardware configuration.

 

You can customize your error ocz macbook or not

 

I've just got a new 27" iMac with the SSD and 1TB HDD, and I was disappointed to see it takes longer to boot than my MacBook Pro with just an HDD. As I have 4GB memory in the MBP and 12GB in the iMac, this could explain it.

 

My new 6 core takes about 10-15 seconds from power button to chime, after that it's very fast getting to the desktop

12gb ram, OWC SSD + 4 additional internal HDDs

Peripherals attached to system:

Apple Keyboard (USB)
Logitech Mouse (USB)
D-Link USB Hub (USB)
Sandisk CF reader (FW800)

Plugged into the USB Hub:

Canon multifunction printer
Apple Universal Dock
Transcend Card Reader

 

My 2010 Hex is at least as fast or maybe a tad faster than my 2008 to boot to the desktop, but for some odd reason it takes much longer to get to the drives choice screen if you hold the option key down at coot. Way too long. I wish I could figure out why.

 

Delay between pressing Power btn and chime sound is POST time, like some of previous posters did mention. Since MP 2009 it's longer than in previous MP versions. There's nothing what user can do to decrease it.

 

I think, all is based on accessories and programs installed, if you make a clean install the machine will boot faster, when begin install programs become slower.

 

Sometimes the delay is caused by looking for a startup disk. Try changing your startup disk in System preferences to another disk and back to the one you want. The pref file may have been damaged (or maybe the startup drive was never set).

 

Not in this case.