On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Leon Sargent Jr. wrote: > You know how I see it, wrong as it might be. If there are no longer > extensions as there were in OS 9 then booting into X would be the same > for as long as no applications were launched. So getting to the > desktop should be me in the lead at 450Mhz not 350.
There's a lot more to it than that. There may not be extensions, but because of Mac OS X's BSD underpinnings, there are all kinds of services some of which you may have turned on and some which may be turned off. Each of these services has to be started at boot, at several different stages of booting. This is a time consuming process, which is why people on the Unix side love how their machines never have to be restarted. A huge boot time hang-up in my experience is the network service startup, which occurs after the Mac OS X splash screen pops up in the second or third stage of booting. Depending on what I'm connected to, it can take a while to figure out which connection is active. DSL tends to be quicker on boot than Cable and vanilla DHCP configured ethernet, in my experience. --Chris -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
