Startup too slow!

Question

Hey everyone,
I just bought a brand new 15" macbook pro three weeks ago and the startup speed is so slow! Whats wrong?

Answer 1

I'll jump in with some suggestions that might or might not help -- this one-question-at-a-time approach is a bit frustrating for the lurker!
1. As a general principle, don't shut your notebook off regularly; let it sleep, connected to power.
2. But to trace the problem, try running Disk Utility's Repair Permissions application. After that, run "Verify Disk" from the same Disk Utility screen.
3. With your MBP running, load "Activity Monitor" and see what applications and processes are running. Also look at memory usage to see if anything odd is happening there.
4. Create a new user account. Switch to that account and start up into it. See if it boots any faster that way. You can delete that account after running this little experiment.
5. If none of that helps or yields clues to the problem, then I would suggest reinstalling OS X (and a Combo Update), to see if that helps.
6. If a fresh installation of OS X doesn't do anything for you, run the hardware tests included on the start-up disk, to see whether a memory or other problem might be dragging your system down.
If none of that helps, then I'd call Apple. They may have some other ideas.
Message was edited by: Allan Leedy