Recently I found my mba 13 to have start up times of 25 secs but more troubling is the fact that my shutdown time has gone up. How do I increase this speed? Also has anyone had problems where the MBA has hiccups every now and then?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have the following set-up:
-iMac next to DSL router with Airport Extreme. Downloads are at 5.2mb
-Macbook at other end of the house with a Airport Express 10 feet away. Download speed is 1.7mb
Networks settings:
-Automatic connection
-WAP2 Personal
-None of the proxy settings are checked
-Extreme in simultaneous dual band
-Express in 802.11N
The Airport Extreme is located as high as I can go
Any thoughts on improving speed of the Macbook location?
Anyway to speed up your cursor at the login screen? I find switching users the tracking on the cursor gets really slow?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedMid 2010 13". The computer crashed. Wouldn't start. decided to reinstall os x. The progress bar is full but at the bottom it says Time Remaining: about -1hours and -53 minutes. And the amount of time just keeps increasing. Anyone know whats up? or is that how it goes?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
So it started out backing up 0KB of 2GB. When it reached 2GB, it just kept increasing.
eg.
2GB of 2GB
2.1GB of 2.1GB
etc. until now it is 4.8GB and still increasing.
My TM backups seem to be proceeding normally on my MBP (which is only sometimes connected to its Time Capsule), but spotlight takes about an hour to index my backup volume each time. Looking at my system.log, I notice that the TM backup volume number is increasing by one each time:Â
[code]...
and so on. Is it normal that the volume name increments each time like this? Could this be related to the long indexing time, which just started recently?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Ever since 10.6 my MBA has shut down in seconds, however this afternoon its now taking over a minute - can anyone shed any light as to why?
I've attached the log for a shutdown from button pressed to actual power off if anyone could point anything out...
how much time (secs) might need a 2 months 13'' MBA to boot up and shutdown? ( i don't have any apps download)
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I am having issues with the shutdown time of my MBP. Namely, until couple of days ago, everything was fine and the shutdown process lasted for about 5 seconds tops. The other day, when I was about to go to bed and shut it down, the shutdown took unusually long time to execute. From that day on, every shutdown is the same. It lasts for about 40 seconds. This is kinda not that funny, because from time to time, like every couple of months the shutdown would be long like this, but the next shutdown would be very short. I consider this to be normal, as far as I read the various forum posts. What bothers me is that since couple of days ago, every shutdown lasts for about 45 seconds and it is not a problem, since the computer works fine, but is kinda irritating. I also have to mention that no major changes (installation or removal of programs) have been performed prior to this issue, and that my login items list is empty.
I have tried the following:
* Zapping the PRAM
* Executing various Onyx scripts, and used Onyx it to clean various caches.
* Reading, verifying and repairing permission using Disk Utility.
None worked for me.
I am pretty sure there are numerous threads about this or similar subject, but I have not found the one that describes this issue that I have.
When I try to start up my computer it takes between 3-5 minutes to start back up again.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I just tried to logout and shutdown my laptop but apparently it doesn't let me. I can log out. I can sleep. I can shutdown but it won't do both at the same time. The pc laptop I just got automatically logs me out when it shuts down/sleeps.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedIt used to be that shutdown was "instantaneous" (2, 3 seconds or so). So when all of a sudden my shutdown time became 20 seconds I got interested. Why the wait? Questions: What is your shutdown time? According to the system.log from yesterday's shutdown (other shutdowns are similar):
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Apr 9 22:57:38 Fiona shutdown[431]: halt by ...:
Apr 9 22:57:38 Fiona shutdown[431]: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1207774658 599340
Apr 9 22:57:38 Fiona com.apple.loginwindow[36]: Shutdown NOW!
Apr 9 22:57:38 Fiona com.apple.loginwindow[36]: System shutdown time has arrived^G^G
Apr 9 22:57:46 Fiona mds[35]: (Error) Import: importer:0x87dc00 Importer start failed for 501 (kr:268435459 (ipc/send) invalid destination port)
Apr 9 22:57:46 Fiona mds[35]: (Fatal) Server: Assertion failure in -[MDSServiceUtil machPortForBootstrapName:targetClassName:andUid:usingRosetta:] (/SourceCache/Spotlight/Spotlight-398.8/server/MDSWorkerProcess/MDSServiceUtil.m:98) -- Mach error 1105: unknown error code
Apr 9 22:57:46 Fiona com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[35]): Exited abnormally: Illegal instruction
Apr 9 22:57:58 Fiona com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.SystemStarter[31]): Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing.
Apr 9 22:57:58 Fiona com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.SystemStarter[31]): Exited: Killed
Interesting, Illegal instructions, Unknown error code. Why is Spotlight always working at the moment of shutdown? What is happening in the unshown 10 seconds?
My Mac Pro (2008, 8-core, 10GB, 2x1TB RAID 0) system takes a long time to shutdown or restart. Typically over a minute. I didn't think this was so bad (though I think when I first got the system is shutdown must more quickly) until I got a MacBook and it shuts down in around 10 seconds. I was wondering if the slow shutdown time on the Mac Pro is normal and whether there is any way I could see what its doing while shutting down. It just sits there at the shutdown screen with the twirling icon and I'd prefer to see some messages or status so I know what is going on.
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She went out for half an hour and when she returned the macbook had shut down.
The date is showing as January 1st 2001 and the clock began the time at 00:00.
Everything else on the computer is fine, but she cannot correct the date and time.
When she tries restarting the computer she is given a warning that the date and time are incorrect but still cannot fix it.
I have got the 2.4ghz aluminium macbook, and I upgraded the ram to 4GB about a 2 months back. I have always felt that my macbook is slower now than before the upgrade(which is strange), but recently the situation became worst. My macbook would randomly heats up very quickly, iStats pro would show me that i only have 1-10MB of free memory, my fan would be running on 6200rpm. response rate would be much slower, and circle of rainbow also occurs much more often.I get panic whenever this happens(i have only got my macbook for 5-months), so when that happens i usually try to quit those application that i am not using like mail, safari, iwork 09 and etc. It didn't really help much(or maybe not at all) until at some point(around about 30-45mins) the systems automatically cools down, reduce fan speed and etc but similar problem would happen again in 30mins.
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MSI have this: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Gra...nal,10527.html
using the Expresscard 34 (max 2.5Gpbs) and say they will switch to USB 3 (4.8Gbps) when it goes mainstream.
Do you think 4.8Gbps is enough to make connecting high end external graphics cards to your laptop a possibility?
My laptop was stolen last week (I just received my new one not too long ago). I have the IP address of my stolen one. Is there any way I can somehow trace it to where my old laptop is? Or do anything to get any information?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a 15-inch MBP (2011) 2.3 GHz, Core i7 with 8 GB of memory and a Vertex 3 MAX IOPS SSD. I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4.As you can imagine, this is one quick system. When I first installed Lion (I did a clean install on a brand new SSD when Lion came out), my shutdown time was literally under half a second. Then a few days later, as I installed my usual apps, I noticed that the shutdown time suddenly went to 20 seconds with the usual grey screen and spinning wheel. I figured that one of my programs must be causing this, but could never figure out which.After living with this for months, I decided today to use Activity Monitor to try to quit some processes to see if my shutdown time would go down. After a few tries, I noticed that just starting and quitting Activity Monitor brings my shutdown time back to half a second..
I repeated this over a dozen times. I start my system and immediately shut it down: it takes 20 seconds to shutdown. Then I start it, run Activity Monitor and then immediately quit it, then shutdown: it takes half a second to shutdown.I can obviously live with a 20-second shutdown time. I don't shutdown often anyway and the system is super fast otherwise. But it's still nice to get to the bottom of this.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8 GB, 240 GB Vertex 3 MAX IOPS SSD
