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Mac Pro speed question
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I bought a 3 Gigahertz Quad Mac Pro for my house. Since my Windows machine at work just died, I bought the same one for work. The work one has 4 gigs of ram, the one at home has 8. It seems the work one boots up a lot faster and apps are a lot more responsive. My home mac is still fast, but the boot time is slower. The only difference is the work Mac has hardly any apps on it, while the home one has a bunch of them. -- however since there is no centralized registry, I thought adding apps to a mac does not slow it down.
Anyone know if I am missing something?
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While OSX does not have any centralized registry as you noted, booting up can still kick off programs/processes.
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Check to see how many programs are starting up on your Mac at home with your computer. It may be a lot more.
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If you go into System Preferences, select Accounts, click the "Login Items" tab, and see if it's starting up a lot of stuff. It's possible that the Mac performs a memory test upon startup, and the Mac with more RAM takes longer.
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Now, one thing the OP didn't mention is what OS he/she is using.
Is it Mac OS?
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One would hope so, considering he mentions the lack of a centralized registry. I don't recall a version of windows that didn't have one since 3.11.
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Originally Posted by Madrag 
Now, one thing the OP didn't mention is what OS he/she is using.
Is it Mac OS?
I use Mac OS with the latest updates. BTW I just loaded my work mac with about 90% of all the apps I have on the home one(and yes, I bought them all). Load time is about the same. One thing I need to do is up my ram. 4 gigs is not enough if you got a 55 gig parallels windows xp running(memory manager says I am using all my physical ram). I was actually able to suck down my windows xp via parallels transporter, so I can do all my windows related stuff without rebuilding it.
In either case, love having two mac pros. One at home and one at the office.
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ok, thanks for clearing that.
[envy]
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