Macbook boot time

Can you take a screen shot of your login items under system prefs/accounts? That may speak volumes for what is causing the slowdown. Also, define startup. Is it the time it takes from cold boot to when everything is loaded or the time it takes from cold boot to the time you see the gray apple on the gray screen (this seems to be something people get confused with).

 

This has been annoying me too, since i installed 10.6 my macbook takes around a minute to boot, from the time i hit the button to when i see my desktop. when i first got it, when i had 10.5.4 - it booted up in 30 seconds flat.

and i don't have anything that opens on start-up

 

Computers slow down due to disk's getting full. A minute is nothing really to complain about. Just refrain from shutting it down as often.

 

Fastest time is about 36 seconds, but usually it takes about 48 to 60 seconds.

 

I've had the same problem when I took the HD out of my MB Pro (that I sold) into my MB. MB would take over 1 minute to boot. Thanks to the forums members suggestions I reset PRAM, now it boots in 35 seconds.

 

Yeah, I suggest you to reset your PRAM too like excommie said. You can do that by pressing command-option-p-r at your boot up. Keep pressing until you hear three diing sound, then let go of it... that is what the youtuber said... I tried... it didn't make so much difference. by the way, I have 10.5.8 leopard. I wish I had snow leopard like yours.

 

Reset the PRAM, always speeds up boot time.

 

Also, make sure your OSX partition is correctly selected in System Preferences > Startup disk.