12" PB Start up times
I recently purchased a 12" PowerBook for a friend ( I get to play with it until their birthday 
). I showed it to someone (a Windows user) and they commented on the slow startup time. I know that the HD is varified and repaired at startup, so I expect generally slower startup times compared to a Windows machine. But I also noticed that it was alot slower at startup and shutdown than my 700 MHz G3 iMac. Both have the same capacity HD's only the PB's is relatively empty whereas the iMacs is 2/3 full. Both run OS X 10.2.5.
Now does anybody know what determines the startup and shut down times and why the difference?
). I showed it to someone (a Windows user) and they commented on the slow startup time. I know that the HD is varified and repaired at startup, so I expect generally slower startup times compared to a Windows machine. But I also noticed that it was alot slower at startup and shutdown than my 700 MHz G3 iMac. Both have the same capacity HD's only the PB's is relatively empty whereas the iMacs is 2/3 full. Both run OS X 10.2.5.Now does anybody know what determines the startup and shut down times and why the difference?
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Why did you have to start it up in the first place? Most of the Mac using people I know never shut down their laptops unless they're installing RAM, an Airport Card, or they're rebooting after an OS update.
Not the answer you're looking for, but when even a weekly reboot is a lot, it's not something I even give a second thought.
On the other hand, my 1.2GHz Cube (also with a 40GB hard drive) gets to the login screen 20 seconds after I power it up, which is handy since it won't wake from sleep...
but as others mentioned, OSX is designed to be put to sleep and woken up again, not shut down and restarted all the time.
most people restart their macs once every 10-20 days at most.
(see, no screaming)
Originally posted by alcimedes
most people...
You mean... "most Apple geeks who post at AppleInsider..."
The few people I've seen who are new to OS X generally shut down their computer, at which point I tell them that having it sleep is better. My mom's dual 500 always sleeps now.
Originally posted by alcimedes
five minutes is excessive, is it looking for network drives/devices?
Nope, I don't use no steenking DHCP and always disconnect network devices before I sleep it. I honestly don't know just how long it is, because I'm usually doing something else while I wait.
It's not something I'm going to get upset over, anyway.
Originally posted by murbot
Why did you have to start it up in the first place? Most of the Mac using people I know never shut down their laptops unless they're installing RAM, an Airport Card, or they're rebooting after an OS update.
hmm.. Thanks for the restrained comment.
This is something that I will have to get used to (at least until I have to give the PB away hrmph. ) I had tried this for a little while until everything froze and I had to force a restart! not something I expected from a brand new PowerBook but perhaps it was caused by something else.
Putting PB to sleep now....
Originally posted by Stoo
How much RAM does it have? More RAM could lengthen the boot process.
Well The 12" PowerBook has 640MB RAM but the iMac has 768MB RAM, so that doesn't seem to follow. Maybe it has something to do with the Boot ROM version?
Like I say, it's not really an issue: I virtually never reboot this machine.
I haven't seen an OS X machine boot in so long that I've forgotten how long its supposed to take. The only time I reboot is when required by an update and normally I just go grab a glass of water. Upon returning, the login prompt is waiting for me.
Can you time the startup and post the results? I'd reboot my dual 450 for old-time's sake and to provide a comparison.
Originally posted by Overhope
Not since 10.2.5, but repairing them after 10.2.4 didn't seem to speed it up any.
so after installing 10.2.5 did you repair permissions? if not then try that. i did and it did speed up start-up a bit...
I haven't noticed it being any longer than I would expect (I don't reboot often). And definintely nothing in the range of 5 minutes. 640MB RAM here.
Something is going on with your install it sounds like.
I'd be interested to see how these times compare to others.
let us know how the sleep method works though. i think you'll be pleasently surprised.
my wife scares the crap out of me with that stuff though. she'll be working on 200MB photoshop files, not even save them, then close the lid. she'll come back in an hour, open in back up and keep right on working. she hasn't lost any work yet, but it still makes me cringe to see it.
1 minute 27 seconds to the login screen
Just seems like forever compared to my Cube.
for me: rendesvous; apple talk; smb.