some guy on macrumors forums was asking about imac boot times so i made a video of my imac booting. its an intel core 2 duo 2.0ghz with 1gb of ram. it boots in about 16 seconds. heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8pFsqAiZOU how fast does your mac/pc boot?
I've never done time trials Desktop PC is a load, it has an old PCI IDE controller though so that adds like 10 seconds right there! My new single core Laptop is less than 16 seconds I wager!! I'll go locate my stop watch
i just cant wait until i get 3gigs of appleram in it. it should mean much faster booting and preformance.
I've heard that the appleram is a lot better than the bananaRAMa 3GB yeah, I would hope that would help. Is that the max for your setup?
yeah the imac core duo had max 2gb ram and now the core2duo can hold 3gb...nothing compared to the new mac pro which is capable of 16gb of ram and 2terabytes of hdd!
I have a desktop 2x1000 Mhz (two Pentiums III) and 512 MB ECC RAM 133 MHZ, Windows 2000 on a 10k rpm SCSI... it takes ages to boot. Windows itself is booting slowly, but RAM check takes about 20 seconds, then BIOS checks SCSI controller... But it's a rock stable box Never a single BSOD for half a year since I assembled it
and what's the PT on that? $4k I'd take a slow boot over my BSOD's ADOTW!! I'm investigating a BSOD now from chkdsk no less
For the ram alone it's $5.7k. Lol you can get it fully loaded with the following specs for roughly $17,000 USD. Two 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 16GB (8 x 2GB) HD Bay 1: 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s HD Bay 2: 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s HD Bay 4: 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s HD Bay 5: 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI) Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel) Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel) Two 16x SuperDrives Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme Fibre Channel Card Apple USB Modem Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse - U.S. English Mac OS X - U.S. English NOW THAT'S A COMPUTER!
I just added some RAM to my Mac and it made no difference in booting. Meh, at least it runs apps better.
apparently I have no concept of time b/c mine was pushing 54 seconds on my LT. I think it just felt SO much faster b/c my old IBM Thinkpad 900MHz (SD133 ram) was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO slow. It took like 5-8 mintues I think by the time the HD stopped spinning
Mine is slow too. About a minute or so on a P4 with 2GB of ram. The reason is because of dual boot setup with CentOs, the bootloader takes a couple of seconds to do its thing. Also, my computer needs a new Win XP install, but I don't really have the time right now.