And another very slow Mac Mini

[pm-r]

... The important thing is that the OP show us what's going on with his Mini. EtreCheck is the right tool. And he doggone does not need the Pro version.

I would agree, but I daresay there are others reading the thread that may not understand or know what Apple's app store does to some applications when a recommendation is made from this site to download some useful application from there.

I call it useful information for those who might benefit from the knowledge.




- Patrick
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[Lifeisabeach]

I'd say it's a combination of Catalina; HDD; and low RAM. Catalina just really needs an SSD to shine. But if you stick with an HDD, long boot times are unavoidable ESPECIALLY with only 4 GB RAM. That's the minimum amount of RAM that Catalina requires, which means you can expect the HDD is being hit quite a bit for caching/swap file while booting especially. You'd still have that going on with an SSD, but it'd be far less obvious.