Video race between iMac G5 and Core Duo iMac booting

They really should have done it from two brand new machines. This test was not fair. Though I still believe the Intel would have won. The G5 just seemed to be way too slow.

They also have a video of a G4 iMac that boots in under 40 seconds. The intel is quick, but the G5 had something seriously messed up. My 2.0 G5 seems not too off of the core duo, although I'm sure actually running and using applications once boot is over will be a significant difference.

Did anybody notice that on the YouTube website, the second video down from the "comparative" intel v G5 boots is them booting up a G5 iMac. It's not an iSight G5 (though you'd think it the same or perhaps faster) but their own video puts the G5 boot time as half of what it is when they pitted it against the intel. I guess the intel is just intimidating.

They were saying that the dual core has been previously booted, IE it wasn't going to go into the 'Welcome' screen that boots the first time you start a new computer running OS X.

I done my own test: I could only go as far as my login screen, since the G5 and the CD didn't have one. But even when clicked on my username, entered the wrong password, then entered the right one, then hit the enter key it only took 1min 18secs for my own full boot, and even then I must have been a few milisecs slow when pressing the spilt option on my phone. Since I'm not in the mood for doing Math, I'll write all my times from the second I pressed the power switch on my mini.

PS: I did have a hacked Apple screen... don't know HOW that effects the test at all.

From power on:
------------- to the Apple boot screen : 19.8 seconds
------------- OSX boot screen : 46.5 seconds
------------- Login Screen : 48.5 seconds
so, the OSX boot screen should only take 2seconds or less to start the OSX front end on a faster computer...

Monty is faster booting than the G5 @ 400Mhz. WTF?

The PPC iMac must have been mucked with in some way, because my mac mini with its 256MB/1.25GHz boots faster than the G5.
Either way, the Intel mac boots faster.

My Mac Mini boots up in about 12 seconds, so it beats them both

My iMac G5 has booted slowly since I installed 10.4.3. I've heard a few others complain of this.

I dunno why.

Even my 2GHz iMac doesn't boot that long. Something's gone wrong with it. The Intel version is fast, though.