Why no Mac OS X startup progress bar?

[benlee]

Why doesn't Leopard have it?
or is it just me?

 

[aethelbert]

Leopard's been loading a lot faster for me. So much faster that a progress bar would only be up for about a second.

 

[polishmacuser]

ive noticed at the apple store your not crazy

 

[benlee]

Leopard's been loading a lot faster for me. So much faster that a progress bar would only be up for about a second.

I have a MBP 2.2 GHZ C2D with Leopard and a MB 2Ghz CD with Tiger. I started them up at the same time and the MBP fully loaded just a second faster.

 

[flopticalcube]

Much faster boot up for me as well. I didn't notice until you mentioned it.

 

[aethelbert]

I have a MBP 2.2 GHZ C2D with Leopard and a MB 2Ghz CD with Tiger. I started them up at the same time and the MBP fully loaded just a second faster.

Did you do a fresh install?

 

[benlee]

Did you do a fresh install?

yes a fresh install then transferred over from external my home folder and music and documents

 

[blackscooby]

I really miss that start up bar ! Shame it's not there now

 

[nineteentwelve]

I never relied on the progress bar at startup because it was timed by the speed of the previous startup. Just a little animation to keep you 'entertained' while you wait for OS X to load.

But like others, I never noticed it either.

 

[richard.mac]

i only saw the progress bar for 2 sec in tiger so i dont care that its gone in leopard... no biggie. leopard actually boots up about 10 sec slower than tiger on my MBP and i did a clean install. anyone know why? i might delete all the system cache and defrag the system and see if that works.