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- 2006 Macbook Pro 15.4" glossy screen, 2.16 ghz, 640 gb, 2 gb ram
Went from 1 GB RAM to 2 GB, and upgraded from the factory 120 GB, 5400 RPM Fujitsu HDD to a 640 GB, 7200 RPM Samsung Spinpoint.
Everything is working...but I didn't get the boost in speed I was expecting. I measure start-up time from the time I hit the power button until I got my first web page open in Firefox. Before any upgrade it took 2 minutes to do this. After upgrading RAM is shortened the time to 1:45. After swapping out the HDDs it shortened to about 1:35.
The computer is a little quicker when opening programs. It use to take about 20-30 seconds to start my Photoshop CS3 program, and now it is open and functional in 10 seconds...so that part is nice. What bugs me is that when I first turn on the computer there's nothing but a blank, grey screen for about 20 seconds before the apple logo appears, then it's about another 20-30 seconds before the screen pops up where I can click my username.
Is there anything that can be done to make the start-up process a little quicker?
If this belongs in the Software forum please move it. TIA!
Everything is working...but I didn't get the boost in speed I was expecting. I measure start-up time from the time I hit the power button until I got my first web page open in Firefox. Before any upgrade it took 2 minutes to do this. After upgrading RAM is shortened the time to 1:45. After swapping out the HDDs it shortened to about 1:35.
The computer is a little quicker when opening programs. It use to take about 20-30 seconds to start my Photoshop CS3 program, and now it is open and functional in 10 seconds...so that part is nice. What bugs me is that when I first turn on the computer there's nothing but a blank, grey screen for about 20 seconds before the apple logo appears, then it's about another 20-30 seconds before the screen pops up where I can click my username.
Is there anything that can be done to make the start-up process a little quicker?
If this belongs in the Software forum please move it. TIA!