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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
And another very slow Mac Mini
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1851098" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1851098, member: 38864"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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