A neighbour of mine converted from PC to his first Mac ever last spring. I didn't know about him doing so until last week when I was seeing him in his home for other reasons. We talked about computers and he gave me the good news. He tells me that he would be very happy with the OS unless it was so painfully slow. I didn't understand so I asked him to show me and I must admit that his system was painfully slow. I have never seen anything like this... Ok, his primary tool at home is MS Office, which isn't ported to support the intel chip yet but it shouldn't take 5-10 min (not exaggerated) for Word to start. Even the menus in Finder are slow... they take a few fractions of a second before they drop down. Opening his hard drive takes a few seconds... Pretty much all windows are updated slowly... I don't get it... I asked him if he had been running the DiskTool lately and he said he had tried almost everything but the Mac Mini was slow already when he first took it out of the box. It is getting to a point where he is using his three year old PC instead of his new Mac as soon as he 'needs to get work done'. What can i do to help him? Ideas anyone?
MiniMac Duo painfully slow
- Thread starter jupi
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Basically, the Mac Mini is crippled, as a stock purchase, due to insufficient amount of RAM.
With the inefficient way memory is consumed by MacOS X, and then allocated within actual and virtual RAM for individual applications, the Mac Mini can be pain staking to use.
Only by increasing the RAM will any usefulness of the Mac Mini appear.
The main culprits, besides MacOS X itself, are 'Finder' (remains a pathetic pinnacle example of Apples' NeXT programmers ineptitude) - barely can handle a few individual processes simultaneously, and 'Safari' - for creating way too many, un-needed, threads, remains plagued with memory leaks, and indeed - consumes too much CPU percentage.
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Again, träumen (dreaming) of 'Apple Computer, Inc' ... opps - 'Apple, Inc'. to fix, for free, the current MacOS X, before releasing a new version - with the sins of the past (and a 128 or so ... new 'features').
With the inefficient way memory is consumed by MacOS X, and then allocated within actual and virtual RAM for individual applications, the Mac Mini can be pain staking to use.
Only by increasing the RAM will any usefulness of the Mac Mini appear.
The main culprits, besides MacOS X itself, are 'Finder' (remains a pathetic pinnacle example of Apples' NeXT programmers ineptitude) - barely can handle a few individual processes simultaneously, and 'Safari' - for creating way too many, un-needed, threads, remains plagued with memory leaks, and indeed - consumes too much CPU percentage.
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Again, träumen (dreaming) of 'Apple Computer, Inc' ... opps - 'Apple, Inc'. to fix, for free, the current MacOS X, before releasing a new version - with the sins of the past (and a 128 or so ... new 'features').
Lt Major Burns
"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
that's a little bit negative.
i have a G3 iBook with bugger all ram, and it works fine. this is a fault, not a shipping problem.
i have a G3 iBook with bugger all ram, and it works fine. this is a fault, not a shipping problem.
'that's a little bit negative.' - yes, yes it is. But then, I read your reply on a Mac Mini and had to switch to another Mac to post this reply (I save all the '.webarchive' files on it). The Mac Mini is currently taxed running 'Adobe Reader', 'Firefox', two (2) applications I will not identify, and ... 'Finder'.
Each sentence (of my prior reply) is accurate, and based on personal experience and that of assisting others with similar 'store bought' systems.
'Store bought' - out of the box Core and Core 2 Duo iMacs performance is quite impressive.
Each sentence (of my prior reply) is accurate, and based on personal experience and that of assisting others with similar 'store bought' systems.
'Store bought' - out of the box Core and Core 2 Duo iMacs performance is quite impressive.