Korrupted Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 The fastest I've seen an OS boot is OS 9 in Sheepshaver, which I stripped out to a bare minimum of a 25MB System folder, took 5 seconds from Happy Mac to Desktop. I wonder if a real Powerbook/Powermac would boot in like 1 second, since they say SS's performance is like 1/8 native. Anyway, what's your fastest OS boot time, emulated is OK too as long as you're not using some sort of frame skipping/CPU overclocking hack? SShaver Settings: Window Mode 800x600 Refresh Rate: 60hz Extensions: None RAM: 40MB(bare minimum I found for no "low virtual memory" nag screen) Disk Size: 26MB DMG file(wanted to see how small I could get it without complaining, etc.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 TinyXP rev05, which is a stripped version of XP, booted in like 8 seconds on VMWare fusion running on OS X. That was fast! OS X boots in about 25 sec on my PC, quite fast.. My dad told me when I was little, that macs don' have boot up times, you just switch them on and they're on ( don't know about that now...) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-471368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted October 15, 2007 Author Share Posted October 15, 2007 I've only used Mac OS 9 and below in elementary school, which was like 12-14 years ago, so I can't remember how long their boot times are. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-471380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 i didn`t tested my osx boot time ,cause i have old hackMac. but my win xp time is 9 sec -windows sp 1 normal version. ~R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-471425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 win xp sp2, 5 seconds. os x - 8 seconds win 3.11 - 10 seconds Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-471427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I don't see any results from Vista in here: Vista Ultimate X64: 5 years, give or take a few days... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-471430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Vista on base boots relatively fast for me. About 10-15 seconds to boot up, 10 to log in, then about half a minute to load drivers and such. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-471988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLiDE FTW!!1 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 OS X booted pretty quick when I first installed in on my hackintosh. Spinning gear to desktop in about 15 seconds... Vista was about that too (maybe less if I can recall). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-472019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwinship Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 The fastest I've seen an OS boot is OS 9 in Sheepshaver, which I stripped out to a bare minimum of a 25MB System folder, took 5 seconds from Happy Mac to Desktop. I wonder if a real Powerbook/Powermac would boot in like 1 second, since they say SS's performance is like 1/8 native. Anyway, what's your fastest OS boot time, emulated is OK too as long as you're not using some sort of frame skipping/CPU overclocking hack? SShaver Settings: Window Mode 800x600 Refresh Rate: 60hz Extensions: None RAM: 40MB(bare minimum I found for no "low virtual memory" nag screen) Disk Size: 26MB DMG file(wanted to see how small I could get it without complaining, etc.) Where did you get the OS9 install disc for Sheepshaver? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-476087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 I downloaded an OS 9 retail disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-479535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micro93 Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 literally about 2 seconds ms-dos osx-15sec xp-10sec vista-8min tiny xp rev 5-5sec win 98-30 3.11-40sec ubuntu-2min 2000 advanced server-90sec mac os 9.2- never loaded Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-479545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Mac OS X 10.4.3 on My AMD Rig 15 seconds, 10.4.10 17~20 seconds Mac OS X 10.4.10 on my Dellintosh 20~25 seconds. Vista a loose the count get distracted after so much, but I think 2 mins. But who cares for boot time, with my PowerBook I get instantly Mac OS just opening the display Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-479551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 My Mac OS 1 Disk Boots up in about 1 second. My MacBook Pro with Leopard takes about 15-20 sec to boot, and another 5-10 sec to log in. Then again, the computer has been on for 22 days. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-479584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark69 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Umm like a minute for my TinyXP and like 20 secs for OSX86... vista 3mins ubuntu 1.30mins probably Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-480758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinuxGuruGamer Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Instantaneous! Apple ][ Just turn it on. JBB Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-482629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyweasle Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 total boot time 35 sec...i know i know my computer sucks spinning gear to desktop <10 seconds Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-482839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Vista - 20secs (should be like 2 secs if MS got there arse into gear about the hybrid drive) OSX86 - Dno yet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-483229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 DSL - Can't time it since my monitor searches for a signal and when it comes back on there it is. It's an LCD with dual inputs so that = fast. Windows Vista first boot = Several minutes as the little dots reach the end of the screen then start a new row. OS X - about 3-5 seconds from Kernel Version to Login. My fedora web server running at 1Ghz with 256MB ram. Several Minutes. I judge from the time I press power to the time I can get onto it's web page. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-484280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Dudley Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Fastest boot? Just to be a bit of a {censored} here - About 0.3 seconds. DOS 6 in Parallels with the virtual hard drive image stored in a ram disk ;-) Should try playing those ancient clock-sensitive games on this beast, all you ever see is "game over"! Don't ask me why I did that haha!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-486671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 When we got in some new Mac Pros here at work, they were booting in 15 seconds from the time you push the power button until it's at the desktop, ready to work. I was impressed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-523084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrks Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Why do you really care about the boot time? I just put all my Macs to sleep when I don't need them. That means I don't even need to start them up! On average I do reboot my MacBook every two weeks or so. I remember there was once where my up timer said 2 months on my old 12" PowerBook! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-525471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 I don't really care about boot times that much, I'm not in it for some glory factor. I was just curious as to what everyone's personal best is. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-527267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I certainly care about boot times. Although I DO put my Macs to Sleep most times, if I leave town for a couple days I shutdown all my systems in case of power failure. So when I get back if I need to do something, I don't want to sit and wait forever for my machine to boot. Wow, so I might have just realized that I'm incredibly impatient and a little lazy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-536132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 My Lifedrive boots in less than a second. Does that count? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-536165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sponkemonke Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Beleive it or not, the fastest boot time was 13sec on a fully loaded Windows XP from the splash to the desktop. Alot of services were disabled and I had no Antivirus. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66493-whats-your-fastest-boot-time-with-any-os-emulated-or-real/#findComment-536625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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