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
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