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MBP's BOOT TIME

How do you guys manage to get like 15-16s boot-up time? My MBP is brand new, fresh out of the box and it takes like almost 40s to boot up (from actually pushing the physical power button to desktop). Should I be concerned about this relatively slow figure?
 
skyrider007 said:
How do you guys manage to get like 15-16s boot-up time? My MBP is brand new, fresh out of the box and it takes like almost 40s to boot up (from actually pushing the physical power button to desktop). Should I be concerned about this relatively slow figure?
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Many of them/us have SSDs installed on our machines, reducing the boot time significantly
 
skyrider007 said:
How do you guys manage to get like 15-16s boot-up time? My MBP is brand new, fresh out of the box and it takes like almost 40s to boot up (from actually pushing the physical power button to desktop). Should I be concerned about this relatively slow figure?
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im guessing you didnt BTO your macbook? and yeah like the guy above me said most of us have SSD which is just night and day difference in loading anything on the hardrive. and most of us have 8 gigs or ram as well..
 
snaky69 said:
Boot times are rather irrelevant, how often do you shutdown your machines? I never do unless an update tells me to or I need bootcamp.
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not true, if you are in college you need a quick boot time.. some times i forget to turn my computer on before the teacher starts talking. but with a 20 sec boot time i can practically have my mac open with word right after shes done with her first sentence =).. oh and while im doing this the others in the classroom arent even on a windows loading screen yet :D
 
Not to burst you guys with SSD's bubble or anything, but my 15" 2.2 w/ 500 gb 7200 RPM drive went from power on to chrome started in about 18 seconds.
 
Derango said:
Not to burst you guys with SSD's bubble or anything, but my 15" 2.2 w/ 500 gb 7200 RPM drive went from power on to chrome started in about 18 seconds.
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I highly doubt this unless the 500 GB drive is a seagate Momentus XT.
 
5 minutes 47 seconds consistently.

Oh wait! Sorry that's my Windows PC, and I'm not joking seriously it takes that long to even begin to function. How sad for a 6 month old Win7 machine, and even then she chugs along unwillingly.

I long for the day I can walk into the Apple store and pick up my new MacBook Pro. Any day now, just waiting for the funds to arrive.

Then goodbye crappy Windoze, and the constant attempts to get her to work, only to find three months later after yet another reinstall, because no matter what you do you just cannot get the performance you first had at a clean reinstall, she craps out on me. :)
 
imaginex20 said:
I highly doubt this unless the 500 GB drive is a seagate Momentus XT.
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It's possible. I just timed my slightly different HDD config: 2011 15" 2.0 Ghz Core i7, with 500GB 7200 RPM Hard Disk drive. The machine mentioned in that post had a slightly faster processor than mine.

My time to boot from button-press to desktop: 26 secs
 
harrisondavies said:
5 minutes 47 seconds consistently.

Oh wait! Sorry that's my Windows PC, and I'm not joking seriously it takes that long to even begin to function. How sad for a 6 month old Win7 machine, and even then she chugs along unwillingly.

I long for the day I can walk into the Apple store and pick up my new MacBook Pro. Any day now, just waiting for the funds to arrive.

Then goodbye crappy Windoze, and the constant attempts to get her to work, only to find three months later after yet another reinstall, because no matter what you do you just cannot get the performance you first had at a clean reinstall, she craps out on me. :)
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I feel you. That's roughly the start-up time on my two-year old Acer laptop.

Right now I'm using the 2011 MBP 13" w/ the standard 320GB HDD, boot-up time hovers around 35 seconds or so.

Maybe I'm using it wrong, but I never 'feel safe' leaving my laptop just to sleep like that when I'm not really using it (i.e. not just going for a short 1-2 hours break, but rather not using it for an entire day).
 
An SSD in any machine is going to give huge performance gains. Today's processors are no longer the bottleneck and haven't been one for quite some time.

Just for lulz I timed shutting down my 2011 MBP and booting into Windows 7 for some WoW gaming - yes I know WoW works great in normal os but for some idiotic reason Logitech can't be arsed to make real drivers for the G700.

30 seconds from the time I hit power to loggin into WoW under windows 7. SSD's are stupid impressive and any computer in any OS will benifit from it. Going back to Mac for some reason takes a bit longer as Win 7 shuts down sometimes silly quick (<2secs) to almost 45secs to grey screen. Dunno but it doesn't bother me much. Probably apply some update or some such.

Just for giggles, I made the mac open like 20 different apps including aperture and photoshop at the same time upon login. It literally looked like my application folder puked on my desktop instantly - was pretty funny. Also it shows how far we have come from back in the dark ages :D
 
Before (stock HD 750gb 5400 rpm 4gb ram):

44.7 seconds till rdy

After (WD Black Scorp 750gb 7200rpm 8gb ram):

30.8 seconds till rdy


After after (Vertex 3 240gb):

Yet to come....... :)
 
skyrider007 said:
How do you guys manage to get like 15-16s boot-up time? My MBP is brand new, fresh out of the box and it takes like almost 40s to boot up (from actually pushing the physical power button to desktop). Should I be concerned about this relatively slow figure?
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That is not possible with old HDD that most people have on their laptops. You must install 3rd party SSD or purchase MBP as custom build with SSD.

MBP 15 inch core i7 with 256GB SSD = 16 seconds.
 
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