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

I think the issue is that previously the indicator was a revolving wheel, it had no endpoint it just went round. Now there is a bar, so there is an indicator of how much longer to occupy you while you wait, my Mac boots as fast as it always did, but staring at the bus bar makes it seem otherwise.

But I rarely turn it off anyway.

peite wrote:

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)!

It has not increased the boot time, it's just a watched pot.

What is a long time, seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months ? Why are you looking at the bar ? Do something else while this loading bar is loading.

I don't time my boot up time, but the bar annoying. I look at it, because if I don't I'll ADD and forget I'm reloading my computer. That's just who I am. I'm just saying I don't like the bar. I preferred the spinny thing. I sort of wish there was an option in Yosemite for either the spinny thing or the bar. Because I feel like Tantalus with the grapes with this bar.

Why do you frustrate yourself and waste your time turning your Mac on and off?

Well, it isn't as if I'm turning it on and off on a daily basis, or even an hourly basis, but I do have to turn it on and off occasionally for some things, and that's when I get irritated. But judging from this entire thread, it seems as if you're not on this thread to assist or even commiserate. It seems as if you are here just to argue for argument's sake.

Regardless. That is how Yosemite now works at boot up and if you don't like it then you need to give feedback directly to Apple and hope that enough other users do the same.

Cheers

Pete

That's up to you.

That's normal. No Mac mini ever booted "instantaneously," if it had a non-SSD hard drive in it.

Doesn't do 'instantaneous' even with an SSD.

It is completely normal. Its just that the more upgrades you have, the more storage used, therefore less RAM available for it to start up very fast. Yosemite is a pretty large bundle, and it sure can take a while to load. I have 3 computers and all start up with a loading bar. My oldest computer starts with a black background, and the rest with a white background.

But with an SSD installed, I can go from power on to full screen working in 14 seconds, and that is loading some Apps at startup. I have 8GB RAM but the SSD made all the difference.

Pete