Slow down in boot and sleep.
Hi,
I've been using my mid 2012 non-Retina MBP for about 4 months now, which runs OSX 10.8, and it was very fast with boot and sleep but now I have to wait several minutes for it to do either of those. It's very irritating, especially when I have to leave super fast, due to my job, and I have to waaaaaaaiiiiit for the sleep indicator button to start dimming.
I was a long time Windows user before switching to Mac and I'm familiar with slowdown of an OS during usage but I was wondering if there is anything, like a cleanup or something, to make it faster. Or how to find out what cuases the OS so much to do before sleeping.
I'm stressing over this because since sleep uses battery, unlike hibernation which dumps whole RAM to an image on HDD, it should just pause the OS and not to do anything special and should not, at least in theory, depend on how many open apps you have. Even though I usually have just a few open apps at the moment.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)