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Like my work? Check out HexaLex, my game for iPhone & iPod Touch. It's a crossword game like Scrabble, but played with hexagonal tiles. http://www.hexalex.com There was a Slashdot article recently about Just out of curiosity I decided to time the different (user-visible) stages of booting. Here's what I got:
So 4 seconds is fairly accurate for the last stage, but the user-perceived boot time is more like a minute. To be fair, though, there were another few seconds of beachball action before I could actually type my username and log in. Incidentally, that crazy 20-second wait before anything at all appears on the screen was really nerve-wracking the first time I turned on my PowerBook. I thought the thing was broken.
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Black screen to grey apple shouldn’t take 20s. It takes like 2s max on any of my macs.
However, grey apple to “gui boot” takes AGES on any mac, like, 20-25s.
then the rest is just like you.
so total is more like 30-40s boot time on a regular machine ( i assume if you have 8GB of ram maybe it takes 10s+ to get from black to apple;)