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Intel X25m slow boot time
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I have a question for people with a HDD or SSD. How long does it take to make that optical drive sound when you turn it on? Is it right after you press the power button because it seems with my SSD, it takes forever to make that sound. Once that's done, it seems like it's pretty fast.
I was really hoping that when I took out my optical drive for an optibay that I'd skip that "efi optical boot wait" but it's exactly the same. Just food for through to anyone expecting a major change.
With that said, my Vertex 2 boots insanely fast. Once the spinny thing pops up, it's about 3 seconds to get into OSX.
With that said, my Vertex 2 boots insanely fast. Once the spinny thing pops up, it's about 3 seconds to get into OSX.
Mine is almost instantaneous. I press the power button and hear the optical drive sound while I am lifting my finger from the button. After that, it take few more seconds to get to the desktop.
15ʺ HR matte Core i7 MacBook Pro, 8GB RAM, 160GB Intel G2 replacing the original HDD, running the latest firmware from a clean install of OS X rather than a restored backup.
Power button to screen on: 8 seconds.
Screen to desktop: 12 seconds.
Note: the to desktop time includes loading:
BetterTouchTool, ColorEyes' LUTloader, Cinch, gfxCardStatus, GrowlHelperApp, Little Snitch, PopChar, SizeUp, and Typinator.
Im sure that it was actually closer to 30s total when I first installed the drive and set up OS X. While I have repaired permissions on the drive (for other reasons) I havent done any kind of maintenance on this install like clearing caches, resetting PRAM, running OnyX etc. to try and speed up the boot time. I believe OS X does optimise the start-up sequence over time though.
I wouldnt be too concerned about it. I think the MacBook Pros just take longer to start up than MacBooksperhaps because of the extra hardware to initialise? I haven't compared this MacBook Pro with another MacBook, but certainly the MacBook Pro this replaced took longer than another two MacBooks I compared it with from pressing the power button to actually starting up. (the screen going on) I suspect the amount of RAM in there will also make a differencethe old MacBook Pro had 4GB vs 1.5GB in the MacBooks.
Power button to screen on: 8 seconds.
Screen to desktop: 12 seconds.
Note: the to desktop time includes loading:
BetterTouchTool, ColorEyes' LUTloader, Cinch, gfxCardStatus, GrowlHelperApp, Little Snitch, PopChar, SizeUp, and Typinator.
Im sure that it was actually closer to 30s total when I first installed the drive and set up OS X. While I have repaired permissions on the drive (for other reasons) I havent done any kind of maintenance on this install like clearing caches, resetting PRAM, running OnyX etc. to try and speed up the boot time. I believe OS X does optimise the start-up sequence over time though.
I wouldnt be too concerned about it. I think the MacBook Pros just take longer to start up than MacBooksperhaps because of the extra hardware to initialise? I haven't compared this MacBook Pro with another MacBook, but certainly the MacBook Pro this replaced took longer than another two MacBooks I compared it with from pressing the power button to actually starting up. (the screen going on) I suspect the amount of RAM in there will also make a differencethe old MacBook Pro had 4GB vs 1.5GB in the MacBooks.
Possible Solution
Look here for a possible solution I found to a really slow boot on my new Core i5 MBP:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/918313/
Regards,
John
Look here for a possible solution I found to a really slow boot on my new Core i5 MBP:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/918313/
Regards,
John
No luck. I do have some errors in my console at startup. I googled them, and it seems that there are people that have this problem, but I couldn't find an answer. For some, moving the Firewire driver worked, but not for me. Tell me if you see anything fishy.
Thought I'd add my experience here and ask a question.
I installed my 160GB X25-M and had very fast boot up time as well. I was seeing about 19 seconds from button push to OS X.
I then installed Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition. When I tried to boot back to OS X it was MUCH slower! Button to OS X was now at about 34 seconds. The Apple screen initially gave me about one spin of the "loader" icon and now it was giving me about 7 or 8.
So, I did a Disk Permissions repair and that brought me back to around 19 seconds boot up.
BUT...
I noticed a few of you have near instantaneous optical drive sound and screen on at button push. Although I'm getting great boot time it's taking me about 6 seconds from button push to sound and screen activity.
Any ideas how to "fix" this? I'd love to get boot up to 12 or 13 seconds!
Keeping topics like this alive is important as there seems to be little real info on the web about SSD issues and application as it applies to Mac and Bootcamp.
Thanks!
I installed my 160GB X25-M and had very fast boot up time as well. I was seeing about 19 seconds from button push to OS X.
I then installed Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition. When I tried to boot back to OS X it was MUCH slower! Button to OS X was now at about 34 seconds. The Apple screen initially gave me about one spin of the "loader" icon and now it was giving me about 7 or 8.
So, I did a Disk Permissions repair and that brought me back to around 19 seconds boot up.
BUT...
I noticed a few of you have near instantaneous optical drive sound and screen on at button push. Although I'm getting great boot time it's taking me about 6 seconds from button push to sound and screen activity.
Any ideas how to "fix" this? I'd love to get boot up to 12 or 13 seconds!
Keeping topics like this alive is important as there seems to be little real info on the web about SSD issues and application as it applies to Mac and Bootcamp.
Thanks!
I was thinking mine is almost instantly on my MB.. the optical drive sound. Hrm.
Bottom line is, if something just doesn't seem right, and we can't help you... Take it to the genius bar. Like dude up there said. : )
Bottom line is, if something just doesn't seem right, and we can't help you... Take it to the genius bar. Like dude up there said. : )
I got the exact same problems. I have a Intel 160GB X-25-M inside my new macbook pro i5..
What to do?
Again, after a Windows 7 install I had a slower boot time. I repaired disk permissions and was back to where I was before (about a 19 second boot). Did you try that? How long from button push to chime for you?
I saw this black screen, cd drive spin up issue on apple support forums. Seems like a bug on the new 2010 MBPs. check this out:
http://iphone.frankthomson.nl/2010/04/25/2010-core-i5-macbook-pro-boot-timebenchmark/
p.s. I have a x25 160 installed as well. I am about 22 s to login screen and I cloned with SuperDuper. Also, I see Entourage, FF, Office, etc all take about 2-3 bounces on first launch when I was expecting 1 bounce.
http://iphone.frankthomson.nl/2010/04/25/2010-core-i5-macbook-pro-boot-timebenchmark/
p.s. I have a x25 160 installed as well. I am about 22 s to login screen and I cloned with SuperDuper. Also, I see Entourage, FF, Office, etc all take about 2-3 bounces on first launch when I was expecting 1 bounce.