I can't say I've noticed that myself. Pages starts instantly on my SSD. Logic, which is a boat of a program, opens along with a project file in about 5 seconds.

I can't say I've noticed that myself. Pages starts instantly on my SSD. Logic, which is a boat of a program, opens along with a project file in about 5 seconds. Word 2008 takes about 5 seconds and also takes an awkward amount of time to close too. Maybe it has something to do with universal binaries? I've always stripped the PPC code out to save some disk space on my (relatively) small SSD. 10.6 ships without the PPC code for all the bundled applications.