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> except Macbooks I guess???

My M1 MacBook takes an order of magnitude longer to start than my Windows Desktop PC. Once it's started up, leaving it on re-logging in takes no time but rebooting takes a while.

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It really is a shame. When Mac OS X first implemented launchd, its boot times improved drastically. It booted really fast even when computers still using hdds. So when Macs got SSDs, they booted incredibly quickly.

But then, with some macOS update, they screwed it up and never bothered to fix it. Imagine how fast those things could boot with their super fast drives and SOCs if someone fixed this regression…

There’s something wrong with your M1 MacBook. I’ve used three and none of them has taken longer than 20-30 seconds from power button to desktop.

20-30 seconds is much longer than the ~6 seconds for my Windows PC.

Old article but:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-windows-10-boot...

IMO having Windows Fast Boot enabled is cheating.

Would it be cheating if an equivalent Apple technology was enabled?

20-30s seems extremely slow but I'm not normally using a Mac. Anecdotally on Linux and Windows systems I commonly see 6-10 seconds on a hard reset with absolutely no optimizations

It takes a while to verify all the signatures in every chip to make sure you didn’t do something evil like repair your own hardware.

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