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How fast does your primary Mac boot?
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My Mac typically boots in 45 to 50 seconds. It is a Powerbook 12", 867MHz PowerPC G4, 1152 MB RAM, 40GB 4200RPM hard drive, running Mac OS X 10.3.9 "Panther".
What do you consider "boot time"? From power up to login, system available, or system idle? Depending on a number of things, those can by wildly different times.
takes about 15 to 30 seconds for mine to boot. If I'm rebooting it because of a software/firmware update, then it takes up to a minute to boot.
From the time I hit the button:
20 seconds of gray screen while the 500gig LaCie firewire drive spins up both drives; then 27 seconds to everything loaded. 47 seconds total, 27 if the external drive isn't connected.
24" white iMac; 2.16 core 2 duo, 3 gig ram. Is there any way to shorten that wait for the external drives to spin up? I'm not complaining, mind you; far shorter boot time than any well-used XP machine I've had.
20 seconds of gray screen while the 500gig LaCie firewire drive spins up both drives; then 27 seconds to everything loaded. 47 seconds total, 27 if the external drive isn't connected.
24" white iMac; 2.16 core 2 duo, 3 gig ram. Is there any way to shorten that wait for the external drives to spin up? I'm not complaining, mind you; far shorter boot time than any well-used XP machine I've had.
Do you see any day-to-day performance hit from this config? I mean, doesn't the system actually run faster if you leave the documents, music, etc in their default location?
My CD MacBook is pretty slow - probably around a minute to boot (with 7200 RPM drive, 2GB).
My previous computer was a dual 1.8Ghz G5, 2GB, and a 10,000 RPM drive. That thing was fast. It consistently booted around 12 seconds every time. Unfortunately it was not portable in anyway, was massively huge, and I'm sure the 9 or so internal fans didn't help with the electricity bill either. I had to sacrifice speed for mobility
I'd like to see how fast a top of the line MacPro with a raptor drive boots up.
On my C2D iMac, Windows definitely boots around 2-3x slower than Tiger or Leopard. Quite sad.
My previous computer was a dual 1.8Ghz G5, 2GB, and a 10,000 RPM drive. That thing was fast. It consistently booted around 12 seconds every time. Unfortunately it was not portable in anyway, was massively huge, and I'm sure the 9 or so internal fans didn't help with the electricity bill either. I had to sacrifice speed for mobility
I'd like to see how fast a top of the line MacPro with a raptor drive boots up.
On my C2D iMac, Windows definitely boots around 2-3x slower than Tiger or Leopard. Quite sad.
Not sure exactly how much time it takes to boot up since I like to keep my uptimes high and normally only restart the machine if software update requires it, or something screws up which requires a restart (which is quite rare). To err on the side of caution I chose 30secs ~ 1 minute. When I first got it, it seemed blazing fast. Now not so much so. Still, better than my Vista PC ahaha... Which takes about 1 minute plus to load everything including the sidebar and pop up that "Start using your computer" screen thingy.
dont ask me why but this config will make your system faster. i got advice from a friend from another mac forum who is very knowledgable on partitions and volumes. hasnt seemed to stuff anything up but i can i say i have noticed a little speed improvement when opening documents in iwork, ilife etc. something to do with the inner plates of your hard disk are faster and the system partition will benefit from this. but my boot time is alot faster.
It used to take under a minute from pressing the power button, to the time I can use a dashboard icon (including picking a user to login as).
However, I recently installed Audacity and CS3, and it now takes around 3 minutes to do the same. Anyone have any problems with either one of those?
This is on a 17¨ 2.33 MBP 2 GB.
@OP The fastest mine has ever booted was maybe around 15 seconds when I had just done a fresh OSX install once I bought the machine. I think 3 seconds from power button to usable desktop icons is an exaggeration.
However, I recently installed Audacity and CS3, and it now takes around 3 minutes to do the same. Anyone have any problems with either one of those?
This is on a 17¨ 2.33 MBP 2 GB.
@OP The fastest mine has ever booted was maybe around 15 seconds when I had just done a fresh OSX install once I bought the machine. I think 3 seconds from power button to usable desktop icons is an exaggeration.
About 15 seconds from the grey screen. 1.83 MBP, 2Gb RAM, 250Gb Samsung 5400rpm HDD. That's with Boot Camp installed which appears to slow the process down a bit, was about 5-6 seconds when it was freshly installed.
My new macbook boots in 12 seconds.
I dont have a boot password on it, and there are hardly any programs on it.
I guess the DDR3 really boosts that speed.
in 12 secs i get my OSX interface, and than i click imail, safari & messenger for mac at the same time, and they popup in less than 3 seconds.
i <3 mac!
ps: my new intel quad I7 2,66Ghz with 4GB DDR ram, boots windows xp pro in 35 secs, omg
I dont have a boot password on it, and there are hardly any programs on it.
I guess the DDR3 really boosts that speed.
in 12 secs i get my OSX interface, and than i click imail, safari & messenger for mac at the same time, and they popup in less than 3 seconds.
i <3 mac!
ps: my new intel quad I7 2,66Ghz with 4GB DDR ram, boots windows xp pro in 35 secs, omg
Approximately 22-26 seconds from power button press to launching apps. That range includes Snapz X Pro loading upon startup, and establishment of connection to my WiFi router.
I'm not sure when you're starting from as far as when to time booting up. Mine is 26 secs from when I push the power button till I have the computer fully booted up with a usable desktop(nothing still loading).
Macbook Pro 13", 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB DDR3 1066 RAM, 500GB HD, Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Macbook Pro 13", 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB DDR3 1066 RAM, 500GB HD, Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I have a 27" imac 2.8 quad core 8gb mem 1tb hd and it takes a minute since i first got it. which is weird because my friend has a duo core mac book pro and boots in 25 seconds