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What's your bootup time on your MBP

OS restart: optical drive check to os x login window: 42.5s
cold boot: optical drive check to os x login window: 38.2s

os restart: optical drive check to windows XP login window: 61.7s
cold boot: optical drive check to windows XP login window:64.9s

Chime to login is probably 3-4s quicker as the chime comes after the optical drive check.

This is with a late 2008 unibody 15" MBP, 2.4GHz, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hitachi 5400rpm 8MB cache

add another 3-5 seconds from login to actual usable system in OS X
add another 10-15 seconds from login to actual usable system in windows XP

both relatively clean/fresh installs
 
Around a minute on my Early '08 MBP. I probably need to do some system maintenance. Then again, I keep it on sleep most of the time, so a minute isn't so bad.
 
I'm satisfied with the new Hitachi drive. Anywhere from 38-55 secs. I'm gonna say the old hard drive was going bad because it would take a couple of minutes even with a clean install.
 
Mumford said:
After getting VMware out of the way, mine is at 16 seconds with the BTO Toshiba SSD. I think 12 seconds would be very doable on a brand-new Mac (no cruft drivers being loaded) possibly with a higher quality SSD.

Video of my mac booting. Sorry I couldn't afford the special effects Angusslo has :)
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He didn't say the magic word "SSD" ;)

And 12 secs seems a little too fast even for an SSD
 
I'm running a 15" Unibody MBP
Snow Leopard
2.66 GHz Inter Core 2 Duo
Mem: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
HDD: Hitachi 320 GB (5400 rpm)

My Boot Time is: 50.26 sec

Which seems to be about 10 seconds more than the average - any ideas what may be slowing my system down?

I have 6 startup programs:
iTunes Helper
Dropbox
Rightzoom
YouControliTunesEngine
Growl
GetbackupAgent

Also I should note that I keep my system running with the energy saver set to "Better Battery Life"
 
Jon-Luke said:
I'm running a 15" Unibody MBP
Snow Leopard
2.66 GHz Inter Core 2 Duo
Mem: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
HDD: Hitachi 320 GB (5400 rpm)

My Boot Time is: 50.26 sec

Which seems to be about 10 seconds more than the average - any ideas what may be slowing my system down?

I have 6 startup programs:
iTunes Helper
Dropbox
Rightzoom
YouControliTunesEngine
Growl
GetbackupAgent

Also I should note that I keep my system running with the energy saver set to "Better Battery Life"
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You have 6 startup programs, I have 1.

Maybe the 7 seconds difference is there.
 
milton.sheaf said:
Who cares how long it takes? How often are you cold booting your machine that these few seconds of boot time are so valuable to you? :confused:
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That's exactly what I'm wondering. How often do you really reboot your computer? I may do it once or twice a week just to clean up the RAM, but that's about it.
 
Jaro65 said:
That's exactly what I'm wondering. How often do you really reboot your computer? I may do it once or twice a week just to clean up the RAM, but that's about it.
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Often. You can read my reply above if you really want to know the reasons why. Just because you don't do it doesn't mean you represent all computer users.
 
Jaro65 said:
That's exactly what I'm wondering. How often do you really reboot your computer? I may do it once or twice a week just to clean up the RAM, but that's about it.
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I cold start my MBP once a day.
I cold start my Mini once a week.
 
Mine takes 28 seconds with a Vertex 120GB SSD in it and 3-4 for shutdown.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.0074.B01
SMC Version (system): 1.33f8
 
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