The short of it is that I downloaded a fresh, unpatched,
version of Mountain Lion from the App Store, installed it, and my boot time
went from 8-minutes to under a minute, which is where it was when I bought it
around 14-months ago.
The (condensed) longer version is that I spent a few days
researching and performing a myriad of trials, tests, and solutions from others
who had run into this problem, none of which did my machine any good, with the
one exception being the idea of reinstalling OS X. I’m not sure when the problem started on my
machine because I only reboot once or twice a week (I usually just close the
lid and let the laptop sleep between sessions) and am usually distracted during
the spin time on startup. When I originally went from Lion to Mountain Lion, I saw no problems with the boot time; for whatever reason, something went wrong on my end since then.
I find Apple products to be far less trouble than MS Windows
systems, but I would not feel comfortable using the term “trouble free.” IMHO, Apple is the best thing at this moment in time.
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