Sometimes I have to wait very long until my MacBook booted up.
Any tricks on how to speed up the boot?
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Sign up to join this communitySometimes I have to wait very long until my MacBook booted up.
Any tricks on how to speed up the boot?
You have a variety of choices depending on your time, budget, and tech-fu:
I would avoid software that claims to speed your computer up for you. Some of it may be helpful, but most of it is a waste of money.
Yes, and all the techniques fall into one of two categories.
Buying a SSD is the best way to make the computer get the information it is loading from disk, if you are starting up from a rotating hard drive. Increasing system RAM is the best way to prevent the computer saving less-accessed RAM back to disk; but typically provides little or not benefits if you have "enough" RAM.
Finding and removing unnecessary software that launch at start time, and turning off features and services that launch at start is the best way to make the computer do less.
There are limits to both approaches. The first approach eventually becomes too expensive to pursue after some amount of initial cost. The latter approach eventually launches too little to make the computer useful. Like all things, some amount of
The biggest gain would be from replacing your harddisk with an SSD. Mine boots, then starts 4 GB worth of applications in about 10 seconds.
This question in fact has an “outside-the-box” solution: the best way to speed up the computer at startup is to not make it start up at all. Make it hibernate instead. You get the benefits of turning the computer off (it doesn't consume any power while it's off) without the downsides (it starts back up quickly and with all your applications open).
See your operating system's documentation for how to hibernate. On OSX, apparently, this isn't part of the default user interface but can be performed on the command line or via a third-party widget.
Or a slightly less expensive option is to use the disk utility app and repair disk and validate permissions. Another useful thing to do if you are ok with working with command line is boot into single user mode and do a file system consistency check [fsck]. These can help and are more fully explained on this webpage by Apple Support