Hello. I, too, experience incredibly slow boot times with lion. I'm using a 2011 Macbook Pro 724LLA or whatever that model number is, and I'm guessing your estimate of 1 minute 43 seconds is about the same for my boot time. More annoying for me than the slow boot time, though, is that under lion, VO startup is hit and miss at best. When lion first came out, it always got stuck in come window called com.doc.apple.extra. That got fixed, only to be replaced by the fact that if VO starts talking by itself at all, I'm stuck in a window called speech synthesis server. In all the time I've run lion, it's never landed me on the desktop the way snowy kitty always does, and more often than not, I have to press command-tab before VO says anything at all. So, to make a long story short, it isn't just you, and like you, I've tried everything I can think of to solve the problem, but nothing seems to make a difference. It seems that my ancient 80 GB external drive which I still use to boot into Snow Leopard when necessary runs faster than Lion, and that's just wrong. So, like you, I'm wondering if there's any point in reporting this to apple, or if it's something that taking my macbook to an apple store might fix. I've just learned to live with it, but it's very strange, especially since Snow Leopard boots so much faster and always reliably starts on the desktop. If you ever find a way to speed up lion's boot time, please share as I'd love to get this issue resolved somehow. Thanks! Missy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Campbell Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Slow boot time with Lion. Opinions wanted. Hi everyone. I'm just wondering if any of you are experiencing slow boot times when running Mac OS 10 Lion on you're Macs? I did a time estimation just now and found that from the press of the power button until VO is heard on the log in screen takes roughly 1 minute and 43 seconds. I'm running a late 2008 unibody MacBook and even though it is an older Mac, it was never that slow while running SnowLeopard. I've tried everything I can think of. I've Ran a battery of tasks using Onyx, I've cleaned out my login items, I've checked free disk space, repaired permissions, verified the start up disk, etc, etc. Just wondering if this might be worth sending in a bug report to Apple or calling Apple Care on this issue. Let me know what you think. Thanks and have a great evening, Matthew Campbell and the slowpoke Mac. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
