Mac OS X 10.4.3

[Elliott]

You all say it's useless, yet you say "Once the Mac is done booting, it sends a terminal command to stop the bootloader." Now, that seems a little contradictory. It's there as a way to say "Hey, this Mac isn't frozen on a blue screen. It's really doing something, you'll just have to wait." It's doing the exact same thing the 10.3 bootloader did with less graphical representation of each process.

WinMacLin, you can't use it for malicious purposes. You could set that bar to go for a million years, but the system will still tell it to end when it's done booting up (which could be 3 seconds) and reset the file to go to the bootup time it just had.

Edited November 11, 2005 by jagedEdge

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Although i miss it telling me what it was doing in 10.3, i dont mind the simple window now, it seems faster on my system anyway. :yes:

[Fusion]

You all say it's useless, yet you say "Once the Mac is done booting, it sends a terminal command to stop the bootloader." Now, that seems a little contradictory. It's there as a way to say "Hey, this Mac isn't frozen on a blue screen. It's really doing something, you'll just have to wait." It's doing the exact same thing the 10.3 bootloader did with less graphical representation of each process.

WinMacLin, you can't use it for malicious purposes. You could set that bar to go for a million years, but the system will still tell it to end when it's done booting up (which could be 3 seconds) and reset the file to go to the bootup time it just had.

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Those statements aren't contradictory at all. It may not be "totally" useless but it certainly does not have the same functionality.

A progress bar should show you just that, the progress. If things are going slow, it should slow down, if things are going fast, it should speed up, etc... In 10.3, it was a real representation of what the system was doing..

In 10.4, it's not really a progress bar anymore so much as eye candy to just show you that things are happening. There are times when the progress bar will be half way done, telling you that you are about half way until boot, and then all the sudden it disappears and boots! So it's not really giving you an accurate representation of the time it is going to take your system to boot.

It certainly isn't useless I guess, but it is less functional. Either way, I have yet to come accross a person who is actually bothered by this.