My MacBook is slow when I switch it on can I improve this condition

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When I switch on am MacBook it seems to take forever to boot, how can i speed it up

This is the iMac forum, so please post in the MacBook forum, and plesae include for them which model, which OS version, how much RAM and how much hard drive space remaining. They should be able to help.

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