[iBook] what do you do at night?

[Neil Hughes]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:24:52 +0100, Richard McKay wrote:

>> 15 seconds! You're kidding right? OK, I'm still on a G3 iBook, but it's
>> not exactly a slouch at 800Mhz, and I'm sure it takes over a minute to
>> get to the Finder appearing (10.3.9). I'll time it when I next reboot.
>> 
>> What model are you using?
>
>Was probably more of a generalization...
>
>Actually if he is using Tiger then the boot time is quicker then Panther but
>some of this is due to the fact that the OS doesn't load all the kernel
>extensions at startup anymore but rather as and when they are needed (as I
>understand it).
>
>That could have a significant effect on the time until login window appears.

Ah! Having just become the owner of a Mac mini running 10.4.1 I see what
you mean. It does boot up a lot quicker than my iBook running Panther,
and I think you're right - not so much stuff loading at the start. Like
Windows XP compared with 2000/NT.

Neil