Boot times of 7-10seconds

[Andreas Grauel]

Not for me. My boot times are still around 14-16 secs ;-)

 

[johannnn]

My boot ups, with nothing authorized to run at start-up, has been around 25 seconds since updating to 10.6.5.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Reboot a couple of times and that number should drop as OS X caches more stuff.

 

[bowlerman625]

i have the base 11" with 128ssd cold boot is around 13-15 secs

theres no such thing as 7 secs

That's where my 11.6 is. I'm very happy with that. My rev C MBA with SSD is basically double that......even double that is still really fast considering most others out there.

 

[mrsir2009]

My MBP takes 15-20 secs. 7-10 is pretty good, although it does have a SSD. I'm interested to see what the boot time will be after I install my XT hybrid.

 

[mkelly]

My boot ups, with nothing authorized to run at start-up, has been around 25 seconds since updating to 10.6.5.

Has this happened to anyone else?

When you say "nothing authorized to run at start-up", do you mean via the Login Items panel in System Prefs, or are you including the LaunchDaemons/Agents in the OS? It's amazing what gets added to launchd by 3rd party apps/drivers, etc.

 

[gwsat]

The consensus of the posts here is that most of seem to be seeing MBA boot times of around 15 seconds. Although that is somewhat more that 7-10 seconds, it's still very good, it seems to me. I counted my blessings on this score this morning when I rebooted my Santa Rosa MBP and the process took 2 minutes.

 

[potentpotable]

When you say "nothing authorized to run at start-up", do you mean via the Login Items panel in System Prefs, or are you including the LaunchDaemons/Agents in the OS? It's amazing what gets added to launchd by 3rd party apps/drivers, etc.

I meant Login Items in Sysprefs. How do you check otherwise? I haven't yet discovered the Mac equivalent to "msconfig"

 

[johannnn]

When you say "nothing authorized to run at start-up", do you mean via the Login Items panel in System Prefs, or are you including the LaunchDaemons/Agents in the OS? It's amazing what gets added to launchd by 3rd party apps/drivers, etc.

WTF! What a load of crap Adobe has installed on my machine. The files are everywhere.

I meant Login Items in Sysprefs. How do you check otherwise? I haven't yet discovered the Mac equivalent to "msconfig"

The ones I know of:
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/LaunchAgents folder

 

[potentpotable]

I checked those three folders, and I have a lot of files. I have no idea what they are, though, so I don't want to delete anything. Nothing familiar stands out.

 

[applefanDrew]

The consensus of the posts here is that most of seem to be seeing MBA boot times of around 15 seconds. Although that is somewhat more that 7-10 seconds, it's still very good, it seems to me. I counted my blessings on this score this morning when I rebooted my Santa Rosa MBP and the process took 2 minutes.

Reset the Pram maybe? 2 minutes is a long time

 

[johannnn]

I checked those three folders, and I have a lot of files. I have no idea what they are, though, so I don't want to delete anything. Nothing familiar stands out.

Well they should be empty so its stuff that you have installed. Google them if you ever want to delete them and boot faster.

 

[kappax12]

just wanna add my time, from start of pressing the power button to fully load up connected to wifi. time = 15sec, shut down time = 1.4sec.
when i first got the air its was loading up at 24 sec. i guess after a few power up its faster now.
i also have no startup items.

maxed out 13 air

 

[fswmacguy]

If I'm not mistaken, Apple starts timing after the "bing", which indicates that the computer has hasn't encountered any hardware errors entering POST.

 

[ZenErik]

My MBP takes 10 - 12 seconds to boot. I would expect similar results for the Air. Maybe slightly longer since they use a slower SSD. Nothing to complain about. My pinwheel generally spins 2 1/2 times.