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How old is the MacBook Pro and do you have SSDs ?

Both my iPhone 5 and MacBook Air restart in seconds. My older MacBook Pro takes a while though but is still at least half as long as my work Ubuntu machine.

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My Macbook pro is going to be 3 years old in May, and my iPhone 4 is Verizon bought last Feb. Not sure if they have solid state drives, but when I don't restart for several months, they take a longass time to reboot

and even if they aren't ssd, that shouldn't cause them to take this long to restart, my macbook when I just restarted it 10 minutes ago took a good 10 minutes to boot up, and I don't even have that many programs installed on it

You can check if it has an SSD in System Information. If you don't then consider upgrading.

But if it's taking 10 minutes then it is likely installing system updates which it does when you restart.

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