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Post Your Boot Times and Setup

well.. my personal experience is that loading times of big sample libraries with many samples load up faster on any platform if its defragged. or better, just copied from one place to another to put them together.. :)
especially because i have 15gigs of 320 free. :D
 
2.16 C2D/3gb/120gb 5400rpm/10.5.6
 

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my times never seem to be that consistent. what's the best way to speed up startup?
 
This thread is meaningless numbers if everyone tests differently. I doubt 22 second boot is possible because it takes nearly 14 seconds for it to do all the checks in the BIOS before the Apple logo shows to start booting OSX.

I think a reasonable test is from the moment you press the power button to the moment the clock is visible in the menu bar. At that point the OSX is pretty much fully booted.

and in those conditions it takes me 46 seconds to boot with my stock 5400rpm hitachi drive. I've also got a 7200rpm 320GB hitachi which takes 4 seconds less, but I've kept the 5400 because it's less noisy.
 
RKpro said:
This thread is meaningless numbers if everyone tests differently. I doubt 22 second boot is possible because it takes nearly 14 seconds for it to do all the checks in the BIOS before the Apple logo shows to start booting OSX.

I think a reasonable test is from the moment you press the power button to the moment the clock is visible in the menu bar. At that point the OSX is pretty much fully booted.

and in those conditions it takes me 46 seconds to boot with my stock 5400rpm hitachi drive. I've also got a 7200rpm 320GB hitachi which takes 4 seconds less, but I've kept the 5400 because it's less noisy.
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25 seconds from button push to desktop. So yes, it's possible.
 
RKpro said:
This thread is meaningless numbers if everyone tests differently. I doubt 22 second boot is possible because it takes nearly 14 seconds for it to do all the checks in the BIOS before the Apple logo shows to start booting OSX.
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thats weird because my apply logo shows after 6 seconds for my apple logo to appear after i press the power button
 
RKpro said:
This thread is meaningless numbers if everyone tests differently. I doubt 22 second boot is possible because it takes nearly 14 seconds for it to do all the checks in the BIOS before the Apple logo shows to start booting OSX.
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Have you used a machine with an SSD? I go from cold boot to usable desktop in twenty seconds on my x25-m. Besides, the machines with more cpu cache (anything above the base configuration) will move a bit faster.
 
RKpro said:
This thread is meaningless numbers if everyone tests differently. I doubt 22 second boot is possible because it takes nearly 14 seconds for it to do all the checks in the BIOS before the Apple logo shows to start booting OSX.

I think a reasonable test is from the moment you press the power button to the moment the clock is visible in the menu bar. At that point the OSX is pretty much fully booted.
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I guess you have never seen a laptop with a fast SSD. When you see your desktop, pretty much everything has already been loaded. The no-clock-on-the-menu-bar time is like 0.5 sec or less even if you have iStat, Growl add-ons, and other miscellaneous items on your menu bar. The same goes for app launch. Once you see an application window everything is ready to go unless it's one of the most sluggish apps.
 
Is it normal to have a startup time of 36 secs one time and then 50 another time?
 
How does this test work if you have to log in manually?

Or more importantly, how does it would, if you don't even reboot your machine? :D
 
alphaod said:
How does this test work if you have to log in manually?

Or more importantly, how does it would, if you don't even reboot your machine? :D
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Turn off, Hold start button and press start on watch/iphone at the same time, press stop when login pops up :p:D
 
I have an early 2008 MBP 2.4 GHz with 250GB hdd and 4gigs of RAM, Leopard with all the updates, iWork 09, iLife 09, Adobe CS3 and a handful of other small apps that I use for design and web development...

I am desperately trying to find out why it always takes 2 minutes for my system to become usable after I push the ON button. I've even tried an Archive & Install, and bunch of other things, tested all my drives, still the same result.
 
mikey.f said:
I have an early 2008 MBP 2.4 GHz with 250GB hdd and 4gigs of RAM, Leopard with all the updates, iWork 09, iLife 09, Adobe CS3 and a handful of other small apps that I use for design and web development...

I am desperately trying to find out why it always takes 2 minutes for my system to become usable after I push the ON button. I've even tried an Archive & Install, and bunch of other things, tested all my drives, still the same result.
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You may have a fairly large number of log-in items. You may also have too many files on your drive to run fast; a HDD slows down as you fill it up. Peripherals attached to your MBP could slow the boot time, too.

Checking your system log to see what is taking so long to boot may help. You can find it at /var/log/system.log.
 
magamo said:
You may have a fairly large number of log-in items. You may also have too many files on your drive to run fast; a HDD slows down as you fill it up. Peripherals attached to your MBP could slow the boot time, too.

Checking your system log to see what is taking so long to boot may help. You can find it at /var/log/system.log.
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Thanks for your reply... My harddrive is not even 50% full. The boot time is slow even when no peripherals are connected. I don't have any programs that run on startup except for EyeTV and Logitech control center. I also did a safe boot to see if it solves anything but still ... Reset all I could reset, checked and repaired all I could... I am desperate
 
mikey.f said:
Thanks for your reply... My harddrive is not even 50% full. The boot time is slow even when no peripherals are connected. I don't have any programs that run on startup except for EyeTV and Logitech control center. I also did a safe boot to see if it solves anything but still ... Reset all I could reset, checked and repaired all I could... I am desperate
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Sorry I couldn't be of help. If system.log doesn't look strange, it might be that your HDD is taking too long to load files on your desktop and other things it needs to start up. My white MB used to take ages to boot too when I had lots of files scattered all over my desktop. It was a slow 5400rpm HDD, though.
 
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