2 weeks later, Leopard still booting up slowly..

I have a brand new MacBook SR 2.2ghz. Everybody claims Leopard boots up as fast if not faster than Tiger (I had a previous MacBook with Tiger). Leopard is easily twice as slow booting up on my new MacBook versus the old one I had with Tiger.

Once Leopard boots up, I have no issues.. everything runs fine.

Any suggestions as to why mine's so slow to boot up? It's fully patched to the latest version. I even did a format/clean install of Leopard and it didn't improve.

Jay

 

How many seconds are you talking about when you say that Leopard boots slow?

 

Takes about a minute and a half to boot up. Whereas Tiger on a slower cpu booted in like 20 seconds.

 

Or you can just put it on Standby. Windows boots slowly too. That's why they invented Standby. It uses so little power. You'll almost save just as much power using standby compared to waiting for your computer to boot up.

 

That's not even the point of my post.. The point is why does my notebook take longer to boot than other people and Tiger?

 

Hmmm... That's quite slow compared to most people who can boot up in 30 seconds with Leopard.

 

Do you have a CD/DVD in the drive or an external drive hooked up while booting? Both of those things will cause the OS to boot slower than usual. Also, Boot Camp can slow down boot times.

 

I have Boot Camp with Windows XP on it.. maybe that's why..

 

Did you upgrade to Leopard from Tiger or is this a new machine? If you did upgrade, did you do a clean install of the OS or overwrite the old one? What programs do you currently have installed?

Edit: Boot Camp shouldn't make that much of a difference. I have XP installed as well and my system doesn't take any more than 25-30 seconds from a cold boot.

Do you have your startup disk set to boot OS X or Windows when you power on/reboot?

 

20 Second cold boot to Operational (iTunes up and running). 2.2 Macbook Black 3,1 (Santa Rosa). Something is wrong with your system or installation. I would reformat or disconnect everything from your Macbook before attempting to boot. (Sometimes external HDs can be very weird).

I have Bootcamped XP installed as well.

 

Yeah... a minute + is definitely long for Leopard. I boot up in about 30-40 seconds on my SR MacBook... which is slower than yours in terms of hardware.

 

This is brand new MacBook.. nothing was connected to the unit, I formatted the harddrive.. it's a fresh install.. not an upgrade.. I mentioned this in my original post.

I don't see what could be "wrong" with my installation considering it's as plain vanilla as this can get. Maybe a lemon machine? It seems to run applications pretty slow in my opinion as well. Any benchmarking applications out there I can run to see if my performance is on par?

 

Well im Geekbenching 2918 which is actually a hair faster than other MacBook results on their website.. I restarted the machine about 10 times today and it's gotten down to about 35 seconds starting up.. I guess it was still indexing perhaps.

Jay

 

I was going to suggest that maybe the HDD had a problem somewhere around the boot files, but if it's getting faster, the likelyhood of that is slim.

 

35 seconds isn't too shabby at all. The problem seems to have corrected itself?

 

Did you select which startup disk you want (windows or mac)? If you didn't, it takes a long time to boot up.

 

I shaved at least 10 seconds off my boot time by doing this and selecting OS X as the default OS. If you need to quickly switch to Windows, download BootChamp. All you need to do is launch the application, enter your admin password, and the system will reboot straight into Windows. It's a bit more convenient than doing a restart from the Apple menu and holding down option to bring up the boot menu.