Completely true! I timed it agin this morning to be sure. The Apple logo appears within a second, so it's maybe eighteen and a half seconds from the logo to fully fuctioning desktop. So, my MacBook pwns all.
EDIT: Oh, and I got it used
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What is your 2008 Mac Pro Boot Time?
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Completely true! I timed it agin this morning to be sure. The Apple logo appears within a second, so it's maybe eighteen and a half seconds from the logo to fully fuctioning desktop. So, my MacBook pwns all.
EDIT: Oh, and I got it used
MP 2.66Ghz - X1900 3gb memory
OSX Tiger - Stock 500GB: ~15-~26 seconds depending if its after an update or an extensive use or howlong it was shut down/restarted
XP - 500GB: ~40-~65 seconds, which is a pretty fast boot time, have next to nothing at start up, (minus typical bootcamp drivers/prefs, O&O Disk defrag and a firewall, noneed for AV)
Leopard - 500GB External drive via FW: ~19-~32 seconds pretty good for a external OS being booted.
OSX Tiger - Stock 500GB: ~15-~26 seconds depending if its after an update or an extensive use or howlong it was shut down/restarted
XP - 500GB: ~40-~65 seconds, which is a pretty fast boot time, have next to nothing at start up, (minus typical bootcamp drivers/prefs, O&O Disk defrag and a firewall, noneed for AV)
Leopard - 500GB External drive via FW: ~19-~32 seconds pretty good for a external OS being booted.
RE: Seconds to boot
That's about the same time within two seconds plus or minus than my G4 AGP tower (ten years old now), PPC running 10.4.11. 2 GB RAM, 1.8 Sonnet single processor. I think a lot has to do with what's connected to your machine. Unplug all your USB stuff except your keyboard, and reboot. See if it makes a difference. When a machine boots, it casts out a line to see what's connected. These peripherals respond and "talk" to your board at their own speed, so could add time. I also bought a Hewlett Packard scanner, because it got good reviews, and I can tell you my experience is that H-P doesn't know how to write good Mac software. They are too Microsoft oriented. My machine would load some little app called H-P Manager, which would always suck up about 2% of my processor, indicated by Activity Monitor, even when all the regular H-P apps for my scanner were quit and the scanner was turned off! It ticked me off, so I encrypted the file where it sat so it could not run, and believe it or not, it seems to have no effect whatsoever on my scanner or any of its functions. And now I have my 2% of processor available for other things. In my opinion, added software as well as added external or internal hardware can slow down boot time.
That's about the same time within two seconds plus or minus than my G4 AGP tower (ten years old now), PPC running 10.4.11. 2 GB RAM, 1.8 Sonnet single processor. I think a lot has to do with what's connected to your machine. Unplug all your USB stuff except your keyboard, and reboot. See if it makes a difference. When a machine boots, it casts out a line to see what's connected. These peripherals respond and "talk" to your board at their own speed, so could add time. I also bought a Hewlett Packard scanner, because it got good reviews, and I can tell you my experience is that H-P doesn't know how to write good Mac software. They are too Microsoft oriented. My machine would load some little app called H-P Manager, which would always suck up about 2% of my processor, indicated by Activity Monitor, even when all the regular H-P apps for my scanner were quit and the scanner was turned off! It ticked me off, so I encrypted the file where it sat so it could not run, and believe it or not, it seems to have no effect whatsoever on my scanner or any of its functions. And now I have my 2% of processor available for other things. In my opinion, added software as well as added external or internal hardware can slow down boot time.