Slow booting mac mini..

Hi. I have a mac mini (early 2009, 2ghz, 4gb ddr3 memory). For some reason it seems to boot slower than my girlfriends mac mini (late 2006, 1.6ghz 2gb ddr2memory). Both are running 10.6.7 fully updated, connecting to the same network with only a keyboard and mouse attached. Hers even runs a little faster until you start to load it up with programs. Anybody know why? Or what could be wrong with mine?

The most obvious things that load at login, which is part of startup if you have auto login enabled, are located at Apple menu-->System Preferences-->Accounts-->Login Items.  Unless you are certain that something listed here is not necessary, leave it alone.
To get an idea of which processes are running on your mini that are not running on your girlfriend's, launch /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor on each system.  From the Show menu, choose All Processes, then click in the User column to sort by user.  Any process that is owned by root was launched during the startup process.  You can compare the processes owned by root on each system to determine what is different.  That might help you get a handle on what is different with your mini.  Just because you find a process that isn't on your girlfriend's system does not mean that it is unnecessary.  It just means your system is running it and her's is not.  If you give us the process names, it may help determine it's usefulness.

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