-- Late 2008 Aluminum full-Body Macbook (13"), with 8GB ram and over 25GB free space --
I updated to El Capitan a while ago, and everything works fine.
My only concern is booting time - I like the fact that now there's a load-bar on boot, under the Apple sign, but I noticed it takes considerably longer to boot than any of my previous installations.
From the moment I hear the "ZZ ZZ" sound (from the CD drive), it takes 10 seconds for the Mac sign to appear (that's because I have windows dual-boot with rEFInd). From the moment the Apple sign appears, the load bar takes over 90 seconds until the log-on screen appears.
From log-on until I can function within the environment (i.e. the mac-bar appears and I can actually click it without the spinning wheel) it takes a further 20-30 seconds.
Total boot time, from the ZZ-ZZ sound until I can click, over 2 minutes 30 seconds.
As far as I can remember, no previous installations too THAT long. Some longer than others, but I was very proud my mac (unlike windows) would boot in approx. 30 seconds from power-on to use.
Is this normal with my mac and el capitan? Can I do something to make it faster? I've tried repairing disks, choosing the mac drive in "startup disk" (system preferences) and rebooting with it, I've tried repairing permissions, resetting PRAM/SMC, but these don't seem to affect boot time that much (if at all).
I updated to El Capitan a while ago, and everything works fine.
My only concern is booting time - I like the fact that now there's a load-bar on boot, under the Apple sign, but I noticed it takes considerably longer to boot than any of my previous installations.
From the moment I hear the "ZZ ZZ" sound (from the CD drive), it takes 10 seconds for the Mac sign to appear (that's because I have windows dual-boot with rEFInd). From the moment the Apple sign appears, the load bar takes over 90 seconds until the log-on screen appears.
From log-on until I can function within the environment (i.e. the mac-bar appears and I can actually click it without the spinning wheel) it takes a further 20-30 seconds.
Total boot time, from the ZZ-ZZ sound until I can click, over 2 minutes 30 seconds.
As far as I can remember, no previous installations too THAT long. Some longer than others, but I was very proud my mac (unlike windows) would boot in approx. 30 seconds from power-on to use.
Is this normal with my mac and el capitan? Can I do something to make it faster? I've tried repairing disks, choosing the mac drive in "startup disk" (system preferences) and rebooting with it, I've tried repairing permissions, resetting PRAM/SMC, but these don't seem to affect boot time that much (if at all).
