Why is Yosemite showing a load bar when I boot up my Mac(s)?

Sorry, but that not the point. It's not about "instantaneously" starting, but it is about virtually immediately seeing your sign-on screen versus first seeing a bar loading screen and then your sign-on screen. On my macbook air dated this year, when it had Mavericks that's how it was. Power-on, black screen for a hot second, then grey sign-on, tada! Now, it's black bar loading with small apple in the upper right corner screen for three to five seconds, then sign-on grey screen.

It's a small difference perhaps, but a difference in the wrong direction nonetheless. And I want to note, that I accidentally twice installed Yosemite and DID NOT have this bar the first time and now have the bar screen after the second update, so yes...I understand the concern people are having.

Csound1 wrote:

Chippy99 wrote:

Well I don't know about this bar making booting feel faster, it's quite the opposite to me: It feels much slower.

Did it seem faster with the little grey pinwheel instead?

I can't remember what it did before, but yes it felt much faster before. Whether this is my imagination, I can't be certain, but the boot process under Yosemite (all things being equal) feels slower.

I called and this is the Apple answer I got:

Yes, Yosemite is heavier than Mavericks, thus why the load time at boot is a slightly longer (and I agree it's only slightly seconds longer). So, that's why the bar shows for the load. Also, the smaller apple icon in the right corner indicates the wifi, etc., being accessed, turned on, etc. (apparently before there was another symbol, but because Mavericks loaded so fast, I never saw any other icons at start-up.)

So I feel better, as the guy seemed genuine, informed and ready for my question. Oh, and as for the wifi issues crowd (I've not been having much wifi issues under Yosemite), the guy didn't right out say so, but a patch is on it's way soon I think.

JEL888 wrote:

I called and this is the Apple answer I got:

Yes, Yosemite is heavier than Mavericks, thus why the load time at boot is a slightly longer (and I agree it's only slightly seconds longer).

Begs the question, how and why is it "heavier"? I so hate bloatware. It's one of the main reasons I moved away from Windows, the incessant increase in the amount of garbage that has to be loaded and processed, simply to boot up and open a ****** browser.

Here we are in 2014 with desktop processors more powerful than those that ran huge mainframes not long ago, and with disks and SSD's that are thousands of times faster, and still we have 20 or 30 second boot times. How many instructions, reads and writes does it need to switch something on?

For the life of me, I fail to understand why booting should take more than 1 or 2 seconds.

Please take away that loading-bar. It looks both bad and has increased booting time!

I installed two SSDs in Mac Mini Quad and I get like 5 secs longer booting time than before when I had boot on SSD + HDD (which naturally slows down booting by 5 secs)!

peite wrote:

Please take away that loading-bar.

Sorry. No can do. You could suggest it to Apple, maybe at feedback

Pete

A agree, I mentioned that early too that my reason for going MAC were speed (and I'd add battery), so Apple must keep these aspects fo their products tiptop or they'll loose clients. For now, my Air still is much faster than most PC's, so I can live with it, but anyone who went from iPad, to iPad 2, etc. know that with every iOS update, your material slows down, eventually considerably, so I'm hoping not to love through that with my Air as fast as I did with the iPad or my HP PC's.

I have totally different experience. On my new Mac Pro at start up the progress bar appears for 2-3 seconds the the finder appears almost instantly. The Whole process takes about 5 seconds. Also I have noticed that shut down happen instantly, no delay, it took longer time with Mavericks. I only have few application on my computer. I use the mac almost only for video editing FCPX. I have no idea what is going on with other users, maybe to many third party stuff.

I am here with the same issue...Booting up is fine, I`m with SSD, but when I type my pass , instead of showing the desktop instantly, I got that loading bar for some reason and then the desktop screen. I don't have any auto starting apps...😮

Download a copy of Etrecheck, run it and post the report here, let's see what is starting.

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1 app actually is auto starting. But it was auto starting and before with Mavericks.

when my 2014 mac book pro boots it boots super quick like in 4 seconds and you get the beut of an translucent log in screen i enter my password hit enter them boom a loading bar then takes about 7 -10 seconds to log in 😟 well annoying

...The same 😟

I agree. If the loading bar was gone, I probably wouldn't notice the boot up time. In all honesty, my computer doesn't take that long to load, but when you have a progress bar to look at, it seems to take way longer. It's definitely psychological in my case, because my computer-machine isn't that old, but I get incredibly irritated when I have to wait for the stupid bar to fill out.