Macbook Pro Boot Time

Dear Apple Loving Community
I have a quick question today.
The Macbook Pro I own is:
Macbook Pro (Late 2011)
I5 2.4 GHZ
4 GB RAM
500GB @ 5400rpm (22.58 GB used)
I ran a boot up time test myself with a stopwatch.
Here is the summary:
10s-Push Power up Button-Login
5s-Login to Apple sign with the spinning (wheel).
28-30s-Apple Spinning Wheel-Spinning Wheel stop.
2s-Spinning wheel stop-Finder/Dock
I am not worried about my performance. I just want to know that is a reasonable boot up time.
Thanks!
Victor Sung
A proud Apple product(s) owner!!!
Go Apple!

I'm sorry but I don't believe you. I have a SSD and a 5400RPM drive in my system. Lion on the SSD and Snow Leopard of the 5400RPM.
To do a Cold boot into Lion on the SSD takes 17+/- second from pushing the power button to the Logon screen where I type in my operating system password.
To do the same on the 5400RPM drive running Snow Leopard takes approximately 42 seconds.
That is on a 15" late 2011 MBP with a 2.2 Ghz i7 Quad Core CPU and 8GBs RAM.
And you are trying to tell me your 13" 2.4 Ghz i5 Dual Core CPU with 4GBs of RAM on a slow 5400RPM drive boots from complete power off to the OS X Logon screen in 8-10 second. That Can't happen, no way no how.
Maybe from Sleep mode but never from a cold boot. Maybe to a EFI firmware password (that is long before the computer even starts to load the operating system) but not to the operating system password.
Nice try though.
In any event have a great weekend.

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