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On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:42 PM, "Daniel Miller" <miller...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've reported that issue several times to apple. They're aware of it, and > are working on a fix, at last response from the support people. Things like > this take time, however, so don't expect it to be fixed tomorrow. > Now keep in mind, I also experienced and still am experiencing what you guys > are talking about, but it's honestly no reason to shoot down the OS, for > something that they're obviously trying to fix, even if it takes them a bit > longer than we'd like to pinpoint what's causing the issue. > Another thing you have to keep in mind, Lions minimum system requirements > state 2GB of ram and a 2.0GHZ dual core processor is the bear least you can > get away with and run Lion, but with some slowness. Ram can have a factor in > boot times, as well as hard drive speed (5400 as opposed to 7200 RPM), so be > aware of that fact as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:10 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Slow boot time with Lion. Opinions wanted. > > 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Campbell > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:33 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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