Mac Pro Boot Time?

How long does it take for your new Mac Pro to boot
(from the moment of pushing the power button til the dock appears)?
Mine took 49 seconds (2,26Ghz 8-core, 12GB RAM, 1TB boot drive)...shouldn't
the boot time be faster?

Boot time to the desktop is hugely affected by the number of Login Items you have installed. You can see this by starting from the login screen and holding Shift as you log in, to skip all login items. On my Macs, skipping the login items saves many, many seconds. It could be the difference between a 30 second boot and a 50 second boot, depending on what you are loading at login.
If you installed software that uses kernel extensions, the more of those you have can also slow boot time. I think you can skip those with Shift at startup.
There are RAM checks at startup, so more RAM could also delay the boot time.

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    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=32 Enabled
    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=34 Enabled
    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=18 Enabled
    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=50 Enabled
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    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=52 Enabled
    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=9 LocalApicId=33 Enabled
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    16.07.11 11:51:35          kernel          AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=21 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
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    16.07.11 11:51:36          kernel          Intel82574L: Ethernet address 70:cd:60:a8:f3:88
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    16.07.11 11:51:47          kernel          AppleTyMCEDriver::start coreVIDPID = 0x2c708086 Number of packages = 1 Number of cpus = 16 memory monitor trough PCI
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    16.07.11 11:51:49          kernel          AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en2
    16.07.11 11:51:52          AGProtocolService[49]          Waves SG Protocol Service: Could not Start Kernel Driver Streaming!
    16.07.11 11:51:54          configd[13]          network configuration changed.
    16.07.11 11:51:58          kernel          CompositeDevice::terminate(kIOServiceSynchronous) timeout
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    16.07.11 11:52:07          kernel          [ffffff80224bbc00][AppleMultitouchDevice::start] entered
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    So I did ANOTHER reinstall, and everything was fine. But this time I tried to install the Boot Camp drivers off the os install disc that came with my Mac (3.1). Still no go!
    So finally I did my third reinstall and after that I did not install Boot Camp drivers. However, I did load up the CD and individually installed drivers for the Apple Mouse, Apple Keyboard, Cinema Display, etc. No problems whatsoever. Everything is actually still humming along fine.
    So it looks like running the full Boot Camp install for some reason no longer works. Which means I am missing the Apple Boot Camp control panel, but that's not really a big deal. Althought it's quite annoying to not have the functionality of the special Mac keyboard keys like volume control, etc.
    Has anyone run into this? I thought it might be a hardware problem but my Mac OS X OS exhibits no problems whatsoever.
    Thanks!

    Thank you to The hatter.
    I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 with a SSD and several internal hard disks. For some time I was trying to install Windows 7 on a fresh boot camp volume on a new WD 7200rpm 1TB hard disk. It was taking hours to install, and then I had a series of failures to reboot that proved permanent. The Window Repair utility would come up and took forever to repair the volume - but failed to actually do so, requiring completion reinstallation of the bootcamp volume. This occurred three times, between 1 day and 2 months after installation. I had already moved the Windows drive in to drive slot 1 of the Mac Pro.
    Eventually I gave up and installed boot camp on a secondary partition of the SSD. This worked fine, however is limited in capacity. So yesterday I thought I would try to install Windows on the hard disk again. The Windows installer took many hours to do its thing, and eventually a message came up that the installation had failed.
    I took your tip about possible hard disk failure, and ran Techtool Pro surface scan. It turns out that there are lots of bad blocks being reported. According to Micromat's documentation, the bad blocks being reported are those that may be in critical areas of the disk that cannot be mapped out. They recommend low level reinitialisation (with zeros) to map out the bad blocks, if possible. I am now running Apple's Disk Utility to do this, and fingers crossed that this reinitialisation succeeds, or I will have to replace the drive.

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