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12" PB: Slow boot times (a survey)
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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I love my 12-inch PowerBook, but it takes a long time to start up. I finally got around to timing it today: 1 minute, 39 seconds.
This is significantly longer than my iMac G3. Both have been running the same version of OS X on 640 MB of RAM; I updated them both to 10.2.5 this morning but it doesn't seem to have affected this issue.
Two questions:
1) How long does it take your 12-inch PowerBook to start up? Time it on a cold boot, not a restart, from when you press the power button to when the Finder menu bar appears. Post your time here.
2) What can I do to shorten the startup time?
Thanks.
(Last edited by CaseCom; Apr 11, 2003 at 01:02 PM.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Mine boots in 1min 20sec from a cold boot until Finder finishes loading. What do you have in your Login Items menu?
edit: Oh yeah, I have 640MB (which should make it slower due to RAM test).
(Last edited by MacNStein; Apr 11, 2003 at 02:42 PM.
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640mb ram
boots at 1min 54 sec....it had to load up the user screen and i chose a user, so maybe cut down like 10 seconds. bah, i still lose.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Originally posted by CaseCom:
2) What can I do to shorten the startup time?
Thanks.
put it to sleep 
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: pittsburgh, pa, usa
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takes me about 1:35 till final boot.... really slow.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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It looks like my startup time is pretty close to normal, then ... and I'm guessing the difference with the iMac is that the iMac has a faster 7200 rpm HD.
Originally posted by MacNStein:
What do you have in your Login Items menu?
Nothing.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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from power button to usable desktop in just under 4 minutes. damn, i didnt realize it took that long. all you guys complainining about a minute and a half have it easy 
seriously, though, is something wrong with my computer? it stays on the gray apple screen for the first 3:30 or so and then the rest is fairly quick. other than that the machine is perfect, so if thats the only thing wrong with it ill live. (i sleep it at night anyway.. only reboot for updates).
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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I've never timed mine, but I timed the one at my local CompUSA and it was two minutes and forty seconds.
I was surprised it took that long, since the 15" TiBook next to it (867Mhz, same RAM) took almost a minute shorter for the same process.
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I'd be willing to bet you have some problems with your disk that is causing the computer to scan the disk on each startup. Boot up in single user mode(cmd-s at startup) and type fsck -y. Run repeatedly until it reports "no problems found", then type reboot to boot back into OS X.
Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
from power button to usable desktop in just under 4 minutes. damn, i didnt realize it took that long. all you guys complainining about a minute and a half have it easy
seriously, though, is something wrong with my computer? it stays on the gray apple screen for the first 3:30 or so and then the rest is fairly quick. other than that the machine is perfect, so if thats the only thing wrong with it ill live. (i sleep it at night anyway.. only reboot for updates).
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