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How can I speed up my Macbook at startup?

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SuperSnake2012

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Oct 11, 2005
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I have one of the Rev A Macbooks (specs in sig). I upgraded the hard drive to a 160GB 5400rpm drive and have 2 gigs of RAM. Even though my computer is pretty beefy, the computer is pretty slow to start up. If I try to open any apps right after the computer boots up, it will beach ball. The computer is not normal for 2-3 minutes, then everything works normally. I'm only using about half of the HD so I don't know why it's being slow. This only happens when the computer comes out of a cold boot. I always put my computer to sleep, so this doesn't happen very often.

I'm running OS X 10.5.1.
 
I suppose you could put an SSD in there.

But how often do you boot it? I reboot mine every time an update requires it. And that's it. I do that when I'm on the phone or something.
 
Well I only re-boot it when I have to install system updates or my computer acts weird (which might be once a month), but I would still like to resolve this problem :p
 
Recently... I installed this hard drive in June and it was okay... it may be related to the Leopard install I did (upgrade instead of fresh install). That may fix it, but I don't feel like re-installing all my apps. :rolleyes:
 
We both have the same computer, and I've been noticing this lately, too. I have a CD 2GHz MB with 2GB RAM, and an upgraded 7200 RPM 160GB HDD.

My boot-ups were about a 50 seconds when I first got my computer. I upgraded to 2 gigs of RAM, and my bootup was about 30 seconds... Nowadays, it takes about two minutes to boot up. Ugh.
 
Do you have any 3rd party software loading at boot time?

Go to System Pref. > Accounts > (Your account) > Login Items.

Anything suspicious in there? Poorly written 3rd party software or perhaps a bloated antivirus prog.? Try uninstalling those and see if your performance improves.
 
Don't really need to uninstall them, just take note what they are and remove them... Thats a good suggestion.
 
ViveLeLivre said:
Do you have any 3rd party software loading at boot time?

Go to System Pref. > Accounts > (Your account) > Login Items.

Anything suspicious in there? Poorly written 3rd party software or perhaps a bloated antivirus prog.? Try uninstalling those and see if your performance improves.
Click to expand...


hehe.. antivirus, I didn't see that til after I submitted.
 
ViveLeLivre said:
Do you have any 3rd party software loading at boot time?

Go to System Pref. > Accounts > (Your account) > Login Items.

Anything suspicious in there? Poorly written 3rd party software or perhaps a bloated antivirus prog.? Try uninstalling those and see if your performance improves.
Click to expand...

Only two things in there... iScrobbler (for Last.fm) and Connect360 (streams my iTunes to my Xbox 360)... I've tried repairing permissions before, that didn't do anything. I have a little more than 71GB free on the HD.
 
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