> So I am asking, does everyone else have a huge boot delay? Is it really something like three minutes on Windows or Apple to shutdown and restart the machine?

> So I am asking, does everyone else have a huge boot delay? Is it really something like three minutes on Windows or Apple to shutdown and restart the machine? Since I only reboot for OS updates (at which point the update process also runs which is much slower), I had to test this out. My MacBook Pro running the latest MacOS, takes about 20 seconds to shut down, and then 50 seconds to boot again - including restoring the software that was running before shutdown [browser w/ tabs, IRC client, etc] since it does that before hiding the boot progress screen.