Is 60 seconds to wake up normal for my 2012 macbook pro?

The boot time is not out of the ordinary. The noise that you hear is probably the Optical Drive that is part of the startup test. I doubt that you are encountering any problems.

Ciao.

Also, there is a strange noise from the optical drive when I first open the macbook.

If you feel that the noise is "loud" call Apple Care since you are still under warranty. A loud optical drives is sure sign that it is going bad. And before you ask, since we cannot hear how loud it is, your best chance is take your computer to an Apple Store or an AASP to let the repair techs "hear" how loud it is. They will be able to judge if your drive is failing or not.

Sorry, that does sound slow. Since you have a new MBP, make an appointment at the Apple store genius bar. They have the proper diagnostic tools and should be able to fix it.

Ciao.

It's because of the following... What's you're seeing is the system waking up from hibernation. It enters this state when it's left plugged in and sleeping for more than 4 hours. There is a bug with this patch that causes this to happen only when the system is on the charger, but not when it's off of it, even though the system is set to hibernate like this in both scenarios. It's a problem that many have seen since this patch came out in November and Apple has yet to acknowledge the issue and fix it.

This is a problem with all 2012 MacBook Pros that have applied the update DL1609 via Software Update. This update is called MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0. The only fix that exists for this is to reinstall OSX and just not install this update when it shows in the available updates list in the AppStore. Just hide it until this issue is fixed by Apple.

If your OSX 10.8.2 version is anything after version (12C60) then you will have this problem. The problem is as follows. With the system asleep with clamshell closed, plugging and unplugging the power cable causes the system to wake up and go back to sleep. Additionally, leaving the system plugged into power for over 4 hours will cause the system to go into hibernation, but only when plugged in. If it's not connected to AC power while sleeping for that long, it will not enter hibernation.

Please call Apple and complain about this problem. I have been working with them for over a month and a half trying to get them to fix this and it's a major hand-holding process because they didn't initially understand the issue. Add to that the fact that they insisted that this problem doesn't exist and it just made it that much harder to get them to see the issue.

You need to call them AppleCare and let them know you're having this problem. Along with that, email the rep you're working with links to every Apple Support Forum thread you can find on this. Trust me, there are several with this same exact problem.

I have the same problem as you and SwankPeRFection.

As SwankPeRFection indicated, this appears to be an issue with the 10.8.2 update. I called Apple support about it and they made a suggestion, which you may want to try. The suggestion was to reset the PRAM via Command-Alt-P-R (held simultaneously) on startup. Let it chime twice while holding the buttons (for a total of three times if you include the initial chime on startup). According to support this may fix the slow load time on wake. I have yet to test this but will post later if it doesn't work and I have a better solution.

By the way, the sound you are hearing may be the hard drive waking up and not the optical drive. (They can sound very similar.)

Doing a PRAM reset won't fix this. Getting rid of the DL1609 update off your system via an OS reinstall and then just not installing (hiding) that update in the AppStore is the only way to fix these new PowerManagement issues.

Others have made sudo changes to the PM settings and while it does fix some issues, it won't fix the wakeup issue that happens when you plug and unplug power from the laptop while it's sleeping. That's an OS level problem once that update is installed.

I have confirmed that doing a PRAM reset does not fix the issue. I called AppleCare and was told that the slow wakeup is an aspect of "deep sleep", a feature which was added in the last update and saves RAM contents to the disk to save power. What you're experiencing may be in part a consequence of having to write all the saved disk contents back into RAM. I have not tried unplugging/replugging while the computer is asleep, but will probably try the sudo workaround next, since overnight sleeps are the only thing I'm worried about.

You can try this thread too if issue is SSD: http://https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5630101?tstart=0

If that link doesn't work search "wake up mac book ssd sandisk" and look for author starkcs