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What's your start-up time on Lion?

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blueprint1983

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Specs: Macbook Pro 15, 17", 2010 model.
OSX Lion Install: Upgraded via App Store (not a clean install).
Boot up time to grey Log-in screen: Just over a minute.
From grey screen to everything functioning normally: varies, but it's about FIVE minutes. (no beach balls or generally latency).
Total time is about 5-6 minutes, but i've had some WEIRD instances taking up to 10 minutes.

Yours?
Specs:
Type of Install:
Boot up time to grey log-in screen:
From grey screen to everything functioning normally:
 
blueprint1983 said:
Specs: Macbook Pro 15, 17", 2010 model.
OSX Lion Install: Upgraded via App Store (not a clean install).
Boot up time to grey Log-in screen: Just over a minute.
From grey screen to everything functioning normally: varies, but it's about FIVE minutes. (no beach balls or generally latency).
Total time is about 5-6 minutes, but i've had some WEIRD instances taking up to 10 minutes.

Yours?
Specs:
Type of Install:
Boot up time to grey log-in screen:
From grey screen to everything functioning normally:
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Time: 5 seconds
Specs: 2011 Macbook AIR intel Core i7, 256gb SSD, 13"
total: dont understand.
 
2010 2.8 i7 with ssd boot hdd for data To log in screen about 10 seconds. From login to everything running normal about 5 seconds.
 
blueprint1983 said:
Specs: Macbook Pro 15, 17", 2010 model.
OSX Lion Install: Upgraded via App Store (not a clean install).
Boot up time to grey Log-in screen: Just over a minute.
From grey screen to everything functioning normally: varies, but it's about FIVE minutes. (no beach balls or generally latency).
Total time is about 5-6 minutes, but i've had some WEIRD instances taking up to 10 minutes.

Yours?
Specs:
Type of Install:
Boot up time to grey log-in screen:
From grey screen to everything functioning normally:
Click to expand...

Takes 5mins for a full boot up but it can vary as well.
 
its a HDD limitation, my ssd boots in seconds

5 minutes is a long time though. you should do a clean install.
 
It's Slower Than SL Was

Specs:

Imac 27"
I7
16GB RAM
2GB Vram (ATI card)
1TB Internal Hdd

Boot time is just under 1 minute, it was about half that in SL.
 
MacBook 5,1
2.4 GHz C2D, 8 GB RAM
Hitachi 5400 rpm HDD
File Vault 2 enabled

1:30 till Desktop
+2 min till everything is usable (I have a ton of login items)
 
Wow. Anyone getting over 2 minutes without a ridiculous amount of startup items should do a clean install.

Get rid of all that cruft that's left on your machine from a few years worth of use.

Edit:

Specs: 2.2Ghz Core i7, 7200 RPM 500 GB HDD (stock), 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 6750 with 1GB GDDR5
Mac OS 10.7.2 Lion
Boot to login screen: 38 seconds
Login screen to usable: 10 seconds
 
dinjin201 said:
Wow. Anyone getting over 2 minutes without a ridiculous amount of startup items should do a clean install.
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You guys that always suggest the "nuke and start over" approach sound like a Dell tech. 😀

If everything works fine but the boot process is slow I'd check my "log in" items first (Under Users & Groups). Next I'd check to make sure the internal HD is indeed set as the start up disk. Yes, clean installs are better but checking a few simple things first would be the prudent thing to do.


And being "usable" depends on how many apps need to load from where you left off. If it's Safari then that depends on how fast it can find a Wi-Fi signal and load.

Specs: 2.2Ghz Core i7, 7200 RPM 500 GB HDD (stock), 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 6750 with 1GB GDDR5
Mac OS 10.7.2 Lion
Boot to login screen: 38 seconds
Login screen to usable: 10 seconds
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That 7200rpm drive makes a difference. 🙂 (vs. 5400).

And Lion is good for SSD sales because that's what it really needs. (It certainly prompted me to get one).
 
Steve's Barber said:
If everything works fine but the boot process is slow I'd check my "log in" items first (Under Users & Groups). Next I'd check to make sure the internal HD is indeed set as the start up disk. Yes, clean installs are better but checking a few simple things first would be the prudent thing to do.
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Stuff I have as my log-in items that are indeed checked:

-Omnifocus
-FontExplorerAutoload

How do I check if the internal HD is set as the start-up disk?
everything else, about 9 items, is unchecked.
 
About 20-30 seconds on a Seagate Momentus XT "hybrid" SSD drive. Apparently the drive firmware figured out the OS needs to stay in the 4GB SSD cache even if I leave the system running for weeks between reboots.
 
blueprint1983 said:
Stuff I have as my log-in items that are indeed checked:
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-Omnifocus
-FontExplorerAutoload

How do I check if the internal HD is set as the start-up disk?
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System Preferences --> Startup Disk

everything else, about 9 items, is unchecked.
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9 items? 😱

Even though they're unchecked each of those 9 apps is still loading. The checkbox only tells OSX to hide the windows until you run those apps.

You need to remove them from the login list. I'd actually start with zero items just to see what it does for your performance.
 
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used to take 3 minute now 50sec to abt a minute. Clean install really helps, I was about to dump lion but clean install made me usable/bareable
 
1 minutes and 28 seconds

Early 2008 Macbook Pro 3,1
Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz 4GB memory 120GB HDD
Lion 10.7.2 installed over the top of Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Is my old MBP very lucky one? 😀
 
late 09 mac mini 2.53 ghz intel core 2 duo 8 gigs of ram
startup is probably 1min to 3 min depending on if my external hd are hooked up

Is there any way to get the mini to ignore in boot up the external hd so it won't spin them all up pm me the answer if there is one i don't won't to hi jack the thread to much.
 
r0k said:
About 20-30 seconds on a Seagate Momentus XT "hybrid" SSD drive. Apparently the drive firmware figured out the OS needs to stay in the 4GB SSD cache even if I leave the system running for weeks between reboots.
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Similar times here with a 500G Momentus XT. The first 3 or 4 boots with the drive took 1-2 minutes, after that it went down to the 25 second range. Sometimes it takes a bit longer if I move to a different wireless network.
 
I counted to 47, and my desktop was all up and running. Ignore my signature, it's not officially correct yet.

As of now, I'm still on my Pentium Dual-Core OC'd @ 3.67 GHz and only 2 GB of Ram, but my thermal paste and ram should be getting' here soon 😀
 
Took my mbp to the apple repair shop and they're doing a clean install for me. Apple support was unable to guide me through a clean install and said something is definitely wrong.
 
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