Boot time doubled with Lion, anyone else noticed that

[i-aamir]

Dear all,

I have noticed that if you don't manually close all programs down before shutting down, your boot time will increase. Makesure all apps are closed before shutting down/ restarting.

I'm running it on a iMac 27" - Mid 2011 and my startup time has increased by 10 seconds since upgrading!

Can anyone help? Lion should surely be faster!!

Current startup time is 35 seconds - SL used to load in 26 seconds!

 

[Alveezy]

i did a clean-install on my MBP 13" Mid-2010 and my start up is about 48 secs. haven't tried the boot-up without uncheck the "restore windows" feature...will post back though once i get the chance.

 

[senc01a]

Just done a fresh Lion install.
Boots much faster than my 2 years old SL

 

[reese637]

I have noticed too that the boot time is longer, but I expect it to accelerate once the new os "settles in" and new updates are released.

Another annoying thing I noticed:
I use BootXChanger to change the mac start-up icon. It shows the icon I set it to be when I start the computer, but after about 30 secs or so, it switches back to the apple icon for about 5 secs and then the computer starts. Hopefully this is just a software bug in the app and can be fixed in an update.

 

[PatriotInvasion]

That's why I always clean install. My Lion is fast as lightening on a 27" iMac quad i5 (mid-2010). Try creating a bootable install DVD (instructions are all over the web for this) and do a clean install. Should be very fast.

 

[Starfyre]

Shutdown time seems faster though!

 

[GermanyChris]

That's why I always clean install. My Lion is fast as lightening on a 27" iMac quad i5 (mid-2010). Try creating a bootable install DVD (instructions are all over the web for this) and do a clean install. Should be very fast.

I did a clan install, and lightning is not the term I would use to describe the boot times.

 

[i-aamir]

That's why I always clean install. My Lion is fast as lightening on a 27" iMac quad i5 (mid-2010). Try creating a bootable install DVD (instructions are all over the web for this) and do a clean install. Should be very fast.

Hi - Can you post your boot times from the moment you press the on button to when the desktop and dock are loaded.

Many thanks

 

[Billymac19]

2011 MBP stock apple 128 ssd, 8gb ram...SL start up was 12-14 seconds, never had spinning wheel...now spinning wheel and double the start up time

 

[SirBarnabas]

I have a 15" 2.2 Ghz Quad core i7 Macbook Pro and lion takes 38 secs to boot up and 6 secs to turn off. I know i chose to get it at 10.7.0 on release and it has bugs. to me it has been very stable and am very pleased but there is nothing to complain about, I'm just thankful i have it i upgraded over Snow leopard just in case people wanted to know


Updates hopefully should fix this soon

I have the same machine. What was your boot time before Lion? Mine is 25 seconds usually with Snow Leopard. But I'm pretty sure it was faster before I installed some fonts (some being corrupt and got rid of all duplicates/conflicts), like maybe around 12-15 seconds? My memory could be wrong because I couldn't believe how fast it was initially compared to my last lappy.

 

[qbiq]

2011 MBP stock apple 128 ssd, 8gb ram...SL start up was 12-14 seconds, never had spinning wheel...now spinning wheel and double the start up time

Check if you are running Lion in 32 or 64-bit. I got the same problem, with the same setup. My machine is not that blazin fast anymore.

 

[Billymac19]

Check if you are running Lion in 32 or 64-bit. I got the same problem, with the same setup. My machine is not that blazin fast anymore.

how do I go about checking that???