I have a 6 Gbps Vertex III driver and reboots are markedly slower than they were in Snow Leopard. But, I think his point was related to the application startup

I have a 6 Gbps Vertex III driver and reboots are markedly slower than they were in Snow Leopard. But, I think his point was related to the application startup, which has caused reboots to take > 5 min. even with an SSD for me. And when you have to force shutdown the system or it crashes, which happens a lot in Lion, you can't opt out of the application restore on startup.