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    Slow boot time MBP 13''

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by JCMS, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    I have a late 2010 MBP 13''. I remember when I got it would boot really quickly. With time it got to boot slower and slower. I thought this was okay because my HDD was getting full.

    But today I did a clean install of Lion and the boot time is atrocious. It takes about 2 minutes on a clean install.

    Plus now, my battery life is real crappy (about 4-5 hours standard usage, versus 7-8 before).

    Does that seem to be common with Lion?
     
    JCMS, Jul 20, 2011
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    azn4lif3s Notebook Consultant

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    Clean install as deleting the partition? If you did not thoroughly wipe it using a program like DBAN (Dariks Boot and Nuke) there may have been left over files.
     
    azn4lif3s, Jul 21, 2011
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  3. JCMS

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    Of course the files are still there, it's a quick format. If that's causing a performance issue on OS X, I think I'll call Apple and ask them why Lion is "the most advanced OS".
    Windows' been playing fine with this for 10 years.
     
    JCMS, Jul 21, 2011
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    need to do some tests on your machine... something could be wrong. That is normal, or expected...
     
    doh123, Jul 21, 2011
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  5. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    You mentioned that your hard drive was getting full. How much free space do you have?
     
    Bog, Jul 21, 2011
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    It had about 20GB left. But I did a clean install and repartionned the whole drive. This isn't my main computer so I didn't have anything important to backup and restore
     
    JCMS, Jul 21, 2011
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