Mac Boot Time

I uploaded this video in response to SamueltehG33k's Leopard Rant.

This video shows you my iMac (bought late '07/early '08) booting with OS X 10.5 Leopard. Never had Tiger on it 'cause I hadn't had it supplied with my Mac.
I've been using Tiger for many years, though, and I absolutely loved it -- then again, there's nothing amiss with Leopard either.
It's really fast indeed, and, although I sometimes do experience application crashes, I certainly cannot blame them all to Leopard. Must say though, I'm eagerly awaiting Snow Leopard...

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Howto & Style

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• Apple
• Mac
• iMac
• OSX
• Tiger
• Leopard
• Boot
• time
• duration
• measurement
• rant
• fast
• speedy
• response
• SamueltehG33k

[Louix94]

I think Leopard is a fairly good OS most of the time, but I had to downgrade back to Tiger because a daemon called ATSServer crashed and wouldn't function properly again after I opened a PDF. The PDF didn't contain a virus because I scanned it using various online scanners. But yeah, overall it's quite a good OS, I'm thinking about going back to it after 10.5.8 is released.

[slashtiger1]

That's something to decide for yourself... All I know is that I'll definitely upgrade to Snow Leopard whence in stores... I'll get the family license for like €41,-...

[Louix94]

By the way, it's not illegal to install Tiger on that iMac, you have freedom of choice over what OS you use as long as it's compatible. And if that iMac is a late 2007 model you can install Tiger on it no problem, as long as you have and own the disks.

[slashtiger1]

You did notice that the movie started timing before the apple logo, didn't you? Today, I timed using a stopwatch, and I timed from the moment the apple logo appeared, but the 'spinning wheel' below it wasn't yet there... This gave me the 22sec result. As toy may have noticed, this is a response to Leopard Rant by samaultehG33k. In my case, leopard runs just fine, even if the boot is slower than tiger... What d'you think about Leopard itself, apart from boot time? I'd love to read that... Cheers

[Louix94]

In the Finder, apparently each icon is treated like a mini window, so yes it would load just a tiny bit faster with no icons. I don't know whether the window bit is true though, I read it somewhere before Leopard came out.

You wouldn't notice too much difference, though.

22 seconds is very good for Leopard and probably the fastest you'd get because Leopard's considerably heavier than Tiger. Snow Leopard should be lighter than even Tiger!

[slashtiger1]

I just used 'periodic daily weekly monthly' in terminal to execute maintenance scripts; performed reboot and went down to 22sec... Still -- it's not Tigers 18sec, but quite fast enough for me... D'you know -- does it make difference at all whether the desktop is empty (i.e. all icons but the drive icons removed)?

[slashtiger1]

You could do that... I'd have to say I believe your written response, though. When I had leopard installed the first time (i.e when my Mac was shipped) I'd also accomplish 25sec or so... I use a host of third party software (scanner driver, etc) and nearly all of these have their own daemons... Dunno, maybe that causes it to be 36sec now... Well, my Windows box was over 1:30min on its 2nd boot after install, so it's still two thirds quicker...

[Louix94]

"Full boot" meaning Apple logo to desktop. Anything before the Apple logo doesn't count because the Mac has to perform a POST (Power On Self Test) to check if the hardware is healthy and it has to perform drive check.

I didn't have to accomplish anything, just keep it clean, I don't use third-party maintenance tools by the way.

When I had Leopard installed it'd be a 26 second full boot I think.

I can post a video response showing this if you'd like?

[slashtiger1]

D'you mean FULL boot? 'cause if that's the case, I'm eager to find out how you accomplished it. I had the Welcome to Mac OS X screen in 18 seconds at another Mac running tiger, but I had around about the time needed here (40 seconds) on the clock before I finally saw the dock. The Mac I'm talkng about had the same specs as mine... I must admit though, tiger is MCUH quicker in some things than leopard... That's why I'm all for Snow-leopard, as you can see in my description.

[Louix94]

lol Tiger 18 second boot here lol, MacBook 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo.