Ever since I’ve installed Snow Leopard on my Macbook it’s incredibly slow to boot up. It shows the Apple logo and the spinning wheel for around the normal length of time, then there’s a long wait (between 2 and 10 minutes) with a pale blue screen. Eventually the login window appears.
I’ve seen a lot of similar problems on forums around the web.
I thought one of Snow Leopard’s selling points was that it was faster to boot up than previous versions of OS X. And one of the Mac’s selling points was that it did not screw you around with the ‘Blue Screen Of Death’. This isn’t death exactly … more the Azure Screen Of Coma.
If Adobe hadn’t abandoned development of FB/Linux (vote against this folly), I would wipe OS X off my Macbook and run Ubuntu.
I’d try booting in verbose mode, so you can see what’s hanging up during the boot process. You’ll recognize all the text scrolling by as a Linux guy :)
From what I’ve read there are virtually no feature changes in snow leopard so the only reason I would upgrade is for the promised speed increase, but based on your experience I may actually get the opposite!