Newest SL client 1.7.4.7 SLOW to launch?

Hi-

Does anyone have the problem of the latest mac SL client (1.7.4.7) being VEEEERRRRRRRYYYYYY slow to launch? Mine takes close to a minute on my PB 1.67MHZ 1GB RAM. Previously it launched a bit slower than a normal app, but not much.

This is ridiculous on my machine. Anyone have any ideas what might cause this if it's not common to all of us Mac users?

Thanks
Lucas

The same happens to me! I was just posting here to see if someone had the same issue, lol, I'm glad to see I'm not mad

The first time this happened, I told myself "oh, it's just the cache that takes much longer than usual to get sorted out". So I cleared it and tried again. But against all expectations, SL still loads slowly! Even closing all programs (I seldom have many open) didn't make a difference.

I then tried the 1.8 preview, and it takes as long as the 1.7.4 client. Hmm. I wonder what's different about these new releases? Are they taking longer to check on the installed hardware? (to make sure they can fine-tune it better or something?) The truth is, when in-world, the difference, in terms of performance, is astonishing — 1.7.4 is far better than any other previous version of SL, and 1.8 goes even further (although, of course, the preview grid is always so much faster than the main grid, so it doesn't count).

How strange!

(running on a PowerBook @ 1.25 GHz with 768 MB of RAM)