Hi guys
I have an early 2011 edition Macbook Pro 13" 2.3Ghz. I have upgraded to Lion and now it takes about a minute to boot up. Before Lion, it was around 38-odd seconds...
Should I take it to the Apple Store. The laptop generally works fine but bootup is as slow as a Windows machine now!
Cheers guys
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Macbook Pro 2011 13"
One minute is definitely too slow.
Might be login items slowing down the boot process.
System Preferences / Accounts - Login Items
And check /Library/Startup Items
Not enough free space on the startup disk will slow down startup time also.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you have a minimum of 15% free disk space.
Try this first:
Reinstalling Lion Without the Installer
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alterhatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.
If you add applications to the Login Items list and have the Resume features enabled and shutdown with a number of open applications, then you can expect a normal slowdown in startup from on to Desktop.
Thanks. I have 130gb out of 280 gb free. The only login item is itunes helper. Also, there is nothing in the startup folder... Seems strange. I do have windows 7 in a partioned drive. Could it be that?
Thanks. How do you switch off the resume feature?
iTunes Helper shouldn't have any effect on startup time neither should the partition.
If Kappy doesn't see your response...
It's the Resume feature of Lion:
Managing Mac OS X Lion's application resume feature.
If you shutdown your computer you should get a dialog asking if you want applications to resume on the next startup. Simply uncheck the box to prevent that from occurring. Open General preferences and uncheck the option to Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps. You can also install a third-party utility to control resume features on individual applications: RestoreMeNot or Application State Cleaner.
BTW, what if any third-party software have you installed?
Thanks! It was already unchecked. I have the following software:
Adobe Flash
Microsoft Office 2011
CleanMyMac
Parallels Desktop
iBank
Facebook Tab
OnyX
MavisBeacon
Kindle
Quran Majeed App
Call of Duty
Tutor for Lion
I assume I will need to reinstall all my applications if I reinstall Lion? Also, is it better to do a clean install of Lion?
No. The reinstall procedure doesn't erase the drive so all your applications remain. Only the system files are reinstalled.
I would not do a clean install unless the reinstall fails to solve the problem.
financelawyer wrote:
I have an early 2011 edition Macbook Pro 13" 2.3Ghz. I have upgraded to Lion and now it takes about a minute to boot up. Before Lion, it was around 38-odd seconds...
I have a similar 2011 17" 2.3 ghz my boot time under Snow Leopard is around 20 seconds with a 5,400 RPM stock drive.
Fresh installs of Lion and Snow compared show Lion is a hair slower than Snow in most all aspects, but your slowdown is very dramatic.
I suggest you read my performance guide here, although you have lousy integrated graphics so there is nothing you can do about 3D and video rendering performance, the other steps will resume your computer to it's optimal boot speed once again, which for Lion should be between 20-30 seconds on 2011 hardware stock. (nothing resumed)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3345904?answerId=16226340022#16226340022
financelawyer wrote:
I do have windows 7 in a partioned drive. Could it be that?
Bootcamped Windows is carved out from the slowest inner most tacks of the drive where the sectors are smallest and the drive heads have to move more often.
This shouldn't affect your OS X boot time, it's the resume feature of Lion likely the initial cause, disable this and then test your boot time again, follow my performance tips at my link if your still expereincing dramatic slow boot times.
Is 1 minute boot up time slow?
