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I upgraded my Mini last week to Snow Leopard, and have been noticing some slowdowns. It takes like 15 bounces for iTunes to open, and even as I am typing this post the text is stopping and going.
Switching between windows and tabs in Safari is dreadfully slow and the beachball always appears. I even had to disable top sites in Safari because the rainbow ball would appear for a couple of seconds when opening a new tab.
I am wondering if Snow Leopard could have caused this in some way? I think it is fully compatible with my computer (a 2008 Mini 1.83ghz Core 2 Duo). I only have 1 gb of RAM, but I never had any problems with that before in the almost 2 years that I have owned the computer.
I checked the amount of RAM being used in Activity Monitor (which by the way took 7 bounces and a good wait for it to open) and a good portion (~256mb) is unused.
I am thinking it is more likely my hard drive. Even though the SMART status is verified, I think it may be failing. I used Xbench to test my computer and it compares with a 2005 iMac G5. Even though my computer exceeds the G5 in all of the categories, it gets left behind in the hard drive speed tests. I also compared my mini to other minis of the same specs and in almost every instance my hard drive is considerably slower (except in the one mini with the same model hard drive- the original Hitachi 5400 rpm).
So, could the upgrade to Snow Leopard have accentuated the existing slowness of my hard drive, or is it failing since/because of the upgrade?
Thanks,
Justin
Switching between windows and tabs in Safari is dreadfully slow and the beachball always appears. I even had to disable top sites in Safari because the rainbow ball would appear for a couple of seconds when opening a new tab.
I am wondering if Snow Leopard could have caused this in some way? I think it is fully compatible with my computer (a 2008 Mini 1.83ghz Core 2 Duo). I only have 1 gb of RAM, but I never had any problems with that before in the almost 2 years that I have owned the computer.
I checked the amount of RAM being used in Activity Monitor (which by the way took 7 bounces and a good wait for it to open) and a good portion (~256mb) is unused.
I am thinking it is more likely my hard drive. Even though the SMART status is verified, I think it may be failing. I used Xbench to test my computer and it compares with a 2005 iMac G5. Even though my computer exceeds the G5 in all of the categories, it gets left behind in the hard drive speed tests. I also compared my mini to other minis of the same specs and in almost every instance my hard drive is considerably slower (except in the one mini with the same model hard drive- the original Hitachi 5400 rpm).
So, could the upgrade to Snow Leopard have accentuated the existing slowness of my hard drive, or is it failing since/because of the upgrade?
Thanks,
Justin