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Hi Yes I did eventually get an answer but unfortunately not the fix I was looking for. The answer is at the bottom of this thread... http://bit.ly/aBleNw I see that you're using a MBP and in theory they aren't supposed to be affected. Anyhow the fix in the end for me is use VirtualBox and...

No the big difference is when I take the Mac to the Genius Bar it takes 7 seconds to start booting Windows and at home it takes 40 seconds. Absolutely identical setup, the only difference is the environment, ie. number of wifi networks visible. No it wouldn't affect you because you're using a...

15 seconds into OS X vs 66 seconds into Windows. No, Ethernet is not an option for this location. I can see 6 networks right now and it can vary from a minimum of 5 up to 8 at any given time.

No, I agree, but it's the way it is. I've actually done this experiment before a few months ago but just for the sake of it I did it again just now. Hold Option down and then select BootCamp...40 secs until it starts loading Windows. An additional 26 secs to load Windows. Go into...

No, I tried that one as well. Even though you don't see the screen shown in the video it still takes the same amount of time to boot.

I finally got the answer from Apple. Their Engineering department provided the following... "Scanning networks can add time to the picker process, depending on the number of networks found. There is no way to turn it off. Only MacBook Air and newer Mac mini support this feature." So if...

Good question. I don't know what else to call it but if there is an official name for it I would like to know. Basically if you hold down the option key at startup the Mac will take you to a screen where you are presented with a row of icons for the different drives and bootcamp partition...

Hi cassianorabelo. No answers yet but I'm still trying.....

Thanks Satcomer but I think I'm narrowing this down now. I took the Mini to an Applestore Genius Bar and when we started it up there it was fast and started loading Windows in 7 seconds as against 40 seconds before. Bring it home and it's taking 40 seconds again. The only difference that I...

Thanks djackmac I tried running the Apple Hardware Test and it says everything is A OK.

Any ideas?

I've just loaded Snow Leopard onto a newly formatted drive and then installed Boot Camp. Whenever I hold Alt at startup and then select Windows the computer seems to freeze for about a minute and then starts loading windows. While it is frozen I can't move the mouse cursor and nothing seems...

OK. So I'm guessing that the result would be the same if I changed the file suffix to .sit or .dmg . And if that is the case then possibly it was an empty drive image to start with. Does that sound possible?

OK I really have no idea what I'm doing here but I'm happy to give it a go. This is what I get... Desktop aa$ od -a Test.zip 0000000 sp nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul 0000020 nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul * 22054220720...

This is what I get:- Desktop aa$ strings Test.zip | more strings: can't map file: Test.zip (Cannot allocate memory)