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What is your new iMac boot time?
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Staying on topic: 30s
Trolling: Funny how many complain of 60s boot up times or even 30s for that matter, then loads MR just to complain about it.
New Q: how long does it take you to whinge about your slow boot up time on Macrumors?
If you have 5 minutes, I'm sure you can wait the extra 30s.
I see no significant need to boot up in less than 30s.
During that time, I tidy my desk, put that pen back into the pen holder. Fix the calculator so that it is dead parallel with the desk corner. Stare at my God-given good looks in the reflective panel that is my sexy iMac. Ahh...booted.
30s is perfect. Otherwise I'd have a messy table and no time to be a self centered bast*rd that i am.
=D GOOD DAY TO YOU.
Trolling: Funny how many complain of 60s boot up times or even 30s for that matter, then loads MR just to complain about it.
New Q: how long does it take you to whinge about your slow boot up time on Macrumors?
If you have 5 minutes, I'm sure you can wait the extra 30s.
I see no significant need to boot up in less than 30s.
During that time, I tidy my desk, put that pen back into the pen holder. Fix the calculator so that it is dead parallel with the desk corner. Stare at my God-given good looks in the reflective panel that is my sexy iMac. Ahh...booted.
30s is perfect. Otherwise I'd have a messy table and no time to be a self centered bast*rd that i am.
=D GOOD DAY TO YOU.
I have an i5 with Intel X25-M in it. At most times, the chime takes 8-9 seconds which is weird. From the chime/apple logo it takes 15 seconds for Firefox/Entourage/Adium and around 10 menu bar items to load up.
So totally - 22-25 seconds. I don't know why the chime time (black screen to grey screen) takes so long.
Should I be concerned?
So totally - 22-25 seconds. I don't know why the chime time (black screen to grey screen) takes so long.
Should I be concerned?
Staying on topic: 30s
Trolling: Funny how many complain of 60s boot up times or even 30s for that matter, then loads MR just to complain about it.
New Q: how long does it take you to whinge about your slow boot up time on Macrumors?
If you have 5 minutes, I'm sure you can wait the extra 30s.
I see no significant need to boot up in less than 30s.
During that time, I tidy my desk, put that pen back into the pen holder. Fix the calculator so that it is dead parallel with the desk corner. Stare at my God-given good looks in the reflective panel that is my sexy iMac. Ahh...booted.
30s is perfect. Otherwise I'd have a messy table and no time to be a self centered bast*rd that i am.
=D GOOD DAY TO YOU.
I wish i shared your mentality. 1:07 boot time and just look at my desk.... I suppose i don't have any excuse!
This is solid advice...
My new i7 was taking about a minute before I selected the start up volume. Now it takes about 25 sec. Very satisfied...
Thx
I run an iMac G4 and my boot time is seven minutes.
How did you manage that? We have similar iMacs, only yours is faster and has 50% more memory! What on earth are you loading?
Oh, and sorry for the threadjack everyone. Guess G4s wasn't the original topic.
About the same for me here, 15 secs from the push of the button, takes 3-5 seconds for the chime to come up.
overall I am extremely happy with the quick boot times of my X25M
Same. Mines 18s from pressing the power button with my external data drive connected. Using a G.Skill Falcon II.
New, mine took 56 seconds to completely boot. I reinstalled the OS from the included disk as per Apple advice for a problem I had and the boot time dropped to 35 seconds.
Also, it takes the same time, 35 secs, for my MB to boot
Also, it takes the same time, 35 secs, for my MB to boot
have any of you tried reinstalling your snow leopard to see if that would help? i know i'm not on a new imac (early 2009), and mine takes under 30 seconds to load.
30 seconds exactly. After a lifetime of windows slow startups this actually turns me on a little bit.
None of my Apple products boot faster than my Thinkpad W510 with 256gb SSD. From dead cold the unit boots and CPU activity drops to 2% and is ready to work in about 30 seconds. That is faster than my iPad, iMac and MBP
I second vraptor65: this is solid advice indeed.
I noticed a 30 second difference in boot times of my 27" iMac in the office and at home... and just solved this in a jiffy
yes that fixed my start up issues
That was what worked for me when I asked a few days ago. Now the start up on my new 21.5 iMac is about 5 seconds from gray screen to desktop if that.
That was what worked for me when I asked a few days ago. Now the start up on my new 21.5 iMac is about 5 seconds from gray screen to desktop if that.
On the phone with Apple support today over another issue. My new Quad 2.93 SSD had me so impressed with how fast it booted. It isn't that I reboot more that once a month...maybe. I noticed after the Apple "Tech" had me do some repair stuff for itunes that was hanging, that the reboot was way slower.
So while I had them on the phone and thought maybe a problem I asked about this. The guy had me to disc utility verify etc. All checked out finally he did the punt of archive reinstall. I figured what the heck and did it.
Then the white screen just hung for 30 seconds before the apple logo.
I then read this post set target to boot from SSD and boom it's WAY faster than ever.
If only the techs were trained as well as the folks on this forum!
Instead of calling Apple I'm checking this forum for help next time!
Thanks!