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Slow MacBook Pro [brand new]

I bought my MacBook Pro like a month ago and I've been experiencing very very slow startup and shutdown times

It usually takes 50 seconds ~ 1 min to boot up and around 20-30 seconds or so to shutdown. The shutdown isnt that slow I guess, the startup is what worries me.

I just turned it on now and it took around 1:30 mins to startup and then it went all black. I thought it had shutdown automatically because of low battery but no, it was on, no lights blinking whatsoever or any sign of it being on, had to turn it off by pressing the power button for several seconds and then turned it on again.

I called Apple's tech support and the guy told me 'it didnt seem slow' to him, he told me that these were leopards' regular booting times.

I have some friends that have the same version of leopard (10.5.3) and their startup times are way shorter than mine, and their computers are not even new, they have less RAM and less everything.

I checked on System Preferences> Accounts> Login items or whatever and I have nothing, so I dont know whats causing this.

Is it really normal to take it 1~ mins to load leopard on a brand new MBP?

If it doesn't, what can I do? Any chance I could get a replacement or something?

I know 1 minute is not 'that much' but I paid a lot for this computer and I want it to be exactly what I expected, if its failing already its going to fail in the future when its no longer under warranty so, better get it working now.

[Btw: 2 GBs RAM, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo]

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jun 10, 2008 11:53 PM

22 replies

Rod Hagen

Level 7

32,000 points

Jun 26, 2008 12:42 AM in response to javiersaldana

javiersaldana wrote:

And well, the first couple of times I used Firefox it was fast, and now seems slower,

Just by the way, there is currently some sort of problem with Apple Discussions causing "caching" problems with most browsers, so don't use this discussion board for your 'speed test" of Firefox etc unless you empty the browser cache first when accessing pages here at present.

Cheers

Rod

Ewen

Level 6

11,805 points

Jun 26, 2008 3:13 AM in response to Rod Hagen

Just by the way, there is currently some sort of problem with Apple Discussions causing "caching" problems with most browsers...

I think that's a bit speculative, Rod. As far as I know, and at time of writing, the Hosts haven't made a post about such an issue, and until they do this might be a bit of theory-crafting on your part. I think my AD usage is probably a bit lighter than yours, I spend maybe 10-15 min at most a day having a look, and I haven't encountered a problem using Official Apple Website, though, admittedly, I haven't tested this by spending 100s of hours on AD without emptying browser cache.

Rod Hagen

Level 7

32,000 points

Jun 26, 2008 6:46 AM in response to Ewen

Yawn, Ewen

Rod

Jun 26, 2008 8:40 AM in response to javiersaldana

You may want to try _resetting the SMC_, since it has control over hard disk spin down.

I'm not sure it will help, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

Jun 27, 2008 5:39 PM in response to Ewen

Try the Hardware Test that is part of the Install DVD (boot from the DVD to do so). Run it a few times, as sometimes it will miss an issue first time around.

Ewen wrote:

Just by the way, there is currently some sort of problem with Apple Discussions causing "caching" problems with most browsers...

I think that's a bit speculative, Rod. As far as I know, and at time of writing, the Hosts haven't made a post about such an issue, and until they do this might be a bit of theory-crafting on your part. I think my AD usage is probably a bit lighter than yours, I spend maybe 10-15 min at most a day having a look, and I haven't encountered a problem using Official Apple Website, though, admittedly, I haven't tested this by spending 100s of hours on AD without emptying browser cache.

There's nothing speculative at all. It doesn't take the hosts to confirm this - simple testing shows almost immediately that caching is in fact occurring. I've known this for quite some time but chosen to ignore it as it doesn't have a huge effect considering the amount of time I spend here.

..k

BlueX

Level 1

82 points

Jun 27, 2008 5:40 PM in response to javiersaldana

My start up times used to be that high, but for some reason it dropped down to maybe 30 or 45 seconds just randomly

My advice is to keep using it and hope it fixes itself.

I don't know how it does it, but it just does...

Jun 27, 2008 5:47 PM in response to BlueX

What you are saying makes sense, as the system does take a while from new to build caches, etc which speeds up the machine. Unfortunately, this shouldn't take a month to do so, however.

..k

Slow MacBook Pro [brand new]