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The iMac takes about 1 min and 10 secs, while the TiBook takes a whopping 2 minutes.
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The simple answer to this is ... just don't turn it off. Unlike a PC, a Mac can sit comfortably in its sleep mode and draw next to no power. I never turn my iBook off, and I take it with me everywhere. The only time I'd shut down a Mac desktop is if I needed to unplug it.
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I don't know whether these results would change if I added additional RAM to the Dell, but I have come to the decision that the TiBook needs a reformat and a system reinstall.
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Before you go that far, you might try running a "Repair Disk Permissions" (boot from the Mac OS X CD and open Disk Utility from the Installer menu), as this seems to help.