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<blockquote data-quote="Cor80" data-source="post: 1019631" data-attributes="member: 147861"><p>I had my mac mini since last year August 2009, and from the day I took it out of the box I raved about how great apple really is, I switched because of the impressive reliability of my nano which to this day is the best thing I bought...for the last 5 months I've tried to keep this up but now I can not ignore the facts any longer.</p><p></p><p>The mini came with leopard and at some point I started to experience some delays in garageband when opening...or maybe it was a super slow crash, I do not know.</p><p></p><p>Spoke to the people at the istore and they recommended I get the snow leopard upgrade.</p><p>That done, I started to notice delays everywhere...things just started to take either long to happen or never happen. The only programs I loaded to date is firefox, vlc player and openoffice and I have 7 gigs of itunes...so I'm still left with some thing like 75gig of space.</p><p></p><p>When attempting to open a program, whether it is itunes or safari, firefox or anything else, it'll sometimes jump a few times (the icon at the bottom) and then wait a while (varying between 5secs to 20secs) and appear on the screen.</p><p>Other times it'll follow the same trend but just never appear, unless I select a command at the top bar...then may sometimes reappear, no guarantees though.</p><p></p><p>I usually go look on spaces for it but it's nowhere to be found...then sometimes after 1min or more it'll suddenly appear.</p><p></p><p>I spoke to people at the istore and they reset something said I must try it. This did not fix the problem.</p><p>Then they said something about 32bit not adapting well with 64bit and I heard snow leopard being blamed etc, Now they say I need more ram, </p><p></p><p>I'm a logical person and this does not sound logical to me, Unless I've overloaded the poor mini, I can't see why I'll need more ram to have the mini run as it should've run.</p><p>Seriously, I don't do any wild stuff on the mini, just browsing, email and itunes occasionally. </p><p></p><p>I switched because of the reliability of mac and now this one turns out to be my biggest nightmare.</p><p>I know one will never be issue free, but this is last problem I expected from apple...after all, my nano is still performing lightyears ahead of my expectations and the mini.</p><p></p><p>If someone can help or advise me what to do I will appreciate it, otherwise I'll just dump the mini in the bin.</p><p></p><p>Thx</p><p>Frustrated <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Shouting.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Shouting:" title="Shouting :Shouting:" data-shortname=":Shouting:" /><img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Shouting.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Shouting:" title="Shouting :Shouting:" data-shortname=":Shouting:" /><img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Shouting.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Shouting:" title="Shouting :Shouting:" data-shortname=":Shouting:" /><img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Shouting.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Shouting:" title="Shouting :Shouting:" data-shortname=":Shouting:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cor80, post: 1019631, member: 147861"] I had my mac mini since last year August 2009, and from the day I took it out of the box I raved about how great apple really is, I switched because of the impressive reliability of my nano which to this day is the best thing I bought...for the last 5 months I've tried to keep this up but now I can not ignore the facts any longer. The mini came with leopard and at some point I started to experience some delays in garageband when opening...or maybe it was a super slow crash, I do not know. Spoke to the people at the istore and they recommended I get the snow leopard upgrade. That done, I started to notice delays everywhere...things just started to take either long to happen or never happen. The only programs I loaded to date is firefox, vlc player and openoffice and I have 7 gigs of itunes...so I'm still left with some thing like 75gig of space. When attempting to open a program, whether it is itunes or safari, firefox or anything else, it'll sometimes jump a few times (the icon at the bottom) and then wait a while (varying between 5secs to 20secs) and appear on the screen. Other times it'll follow the same trend but just never appear, unless I select a command at the top bar...then may sometimes reappear, no guarantees though. I usually go look on spaces for it but it's nowhere to be found...then sometimes after 1min or more it'll suddenly appear. I spoke to people at the istore and they reset something said I must try it. This did not fix the problem. Then they said something about 32bit not adapting well with 64bit and I heard snow leopard being blamed etc, Now they say I need more ram, I'm a logical person and this does not sound logical to me, Unless I've overloaded the poor mini, I can't see why I'll need more ram to have the mini run as it should've run. Seriously, I don't do any wild stuff on the mini, just browsing, email and itunes occasionally. I switched because of the reliability of mac and now this one turns out to be my biggest nightmare. I know one will never be issue free, but this is last problem I expected from apple...after all, my nano is still performing lightyears ahead of my expectations and the mini. If someone can help or advise me what to do I will appreciate it, otherwise I'll just dump the mini in the bin. Thx Frustrated :Shouting::Shouting::Shouting::Shouting: [/QUOTE]
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