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Yosemite slower booting...
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I have this issue as well. 2012 Macbook Air with SSD. I think it is the encryption on the hard drive. Maybe. When mine finishes I am going to see if it is faster after encrypt complete. If not I am going to remove the encryption. I also disabled location services but that did not make a difference.
No encryption on my Mac, but boot times are identical to Mavericks.
So far, I've noticed incredibly quick shutdown/restart times. Much like pre-ML OS X.
So far, I've noticed incredibly quick shutdown/restart times. Much like pre-ML OS X.
Do you have a Solid State Drive (SSD)?
My MBA booted and was online in about 10 to 15 seconds with Mavericks. Much slower with Yosemite.
I have Mid2012 MBA, 256 GB SSD, 4 GB RAM, about 20 to 25 seconds to boot. Progress indicator shows for about 10 seconds. It is definitely slower than Mavericks for me, by about 10 seconds
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I guess that squashes my theory!
HD is still "optimizing." under the encryption settings
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Maybe it the clean install, IDK.
Uhh, I am guessing here. Do you know the answer? Do you have to be such a rude a hole??
Maybe, or do you think it may have to do with what is booting up with your system. I have only iTunes helper.
so you're telling me it's a whole TEN SECONDS NOW? how can you live with THAT??!!! send it to apple and ask your money back!
Mine's a hybrid, actually. Yeah, I'm one of the rare few who has a Momentus XT hybrid (HHD, but with SSD "parts") installed in my late 2011 MBP. The boot time, from powerup to my account, takes about 10-13 seconds.
Here is a video I made showing Yosemite boot up on my Mac Mini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQHUTc4TFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQHUTc4TFw
Same here. 2009 Mac Pro with SSD and I get a progress bar and an extra 10 seconds or so. No biggie but another pimple on Yosemite's arse.
For anyone who's interested, below is a list of boot times for an iMac7,1 running 7 different versions of OS X.
10.4.11 = 26s
10.5.8 = 31s
10.6.8 = 32s
10.7.5 = 41s
10.8.4 = 39s
10.9.5 = 43s
10.10 = 49s
The timings are a measurement of how long it took to get from a cold boot to a usable desktop.
I used a script to do the timings (https://sourceforge.net/projects/osxcoldstart2desktoptimer/) which is better than using a stopwatch - but there's still probably a margin of error that I'm uncertain of.
As you can see, there is a gradual increase in boot times.
I'm not complaining particularly, more features seem to always equate to longer boot times. I only did the timings because our users are constantly telling us that "...the Macs are so much slower than last year". I just wanted to confirm what was happening.
The iMac 7,1 is our oldest Mac. I have a vague memory of it being a reasonably quick machine when new (late 2007) although it seems quite slow now. The test timings appear to confirm this. It is however, a good test machine since it can run every OS from 10.4 to 10.10.
The Mac involved was installed with a base OS, and no other applications. It had been initially installed with 10.10 - so the hard disk partition scheme reflected this (it contained a 10.10 recovery partition).
I've not updated our users to Yosemite yet... but probably will very soon.
10.4.11 = 26s
10.5.8 = 31s
10.6.8 = 32s
10.7.5 = 41s
10.8.4 = 39s
10.9.5 = 43s
10.10 = 49s
The timings are a measurement of how long it took to get from a cold boot to a usable desktop.
I used a script to do the timings (https://sourceforge.net/projects/osxcoldstart2desktoptimer/) which is better than using a stopwatch - but there's still probably a margin of error that I'm uncertain of.
As you can see, there is a gradual increase in boot times.
I'm not complaining particularly, more features seem to always equate to longer boot times. I only did the timings because our users are constantly telling us that "...the Macs are so much slower than last year". I just wanted to confirm what was happening.
The iMac 7,1 is our oldest Mac. I have a vague memory of it being a reasonably quick machine when new (late 2007) although it seems quite slow now. The test timings appear to confirm this. It is however, a good test machine since it can run every OS from 10.4 to 10.10.
The Mac involved was installed with a base OS, and no other applications. It had been initially installed with 10.10 - so the hard disk partition scheme reflected this (it contained a 10.10 recovery partition).
I've not updated our users to Yosemite yet... but probably will very soon.
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There is definitely slower booting, but I am experiencing slower read access in general on my boot drive since installing Yosemite. I see this when copying files, Time Machine backups, and even accessing Quick Look data for photos. I don't know if this is related to Core Storage, though my Mac Pro is too old to support it. But something is definitely wrong there. (and yes I ran Disk Utility and repaired permissions)