Cursor/Trackpad: short freezes

My new MBP often suffers from short cursor freezes, wherein the cursor will simply freeze for a short time, or zoom off to one of the screen's four corners, and then resume interactivity. No third party trackpad software is installed.
I never had this problem on either of my G4 PowerBooks. Otherwise, I'm loving my first Mactel machine.

I believe you'll actually have to UNcheck the box that says to ignore accidental trackpad input. What I've managed to deduce from this is that it's not only ignoring accidental input from your palm touching it (for example), but it's actually ignoring intended trackpad input for a short period before it realizes that you're actually trying to get it to do something.

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Mac Mini 2014 short freezes

Hello
Recently I purchased a brand new Mac Mini 2014 and sometimes I have this weird issue. Sometimes my mac has short freezes, i can't move cursor or type anything.
when I reboot my issue is solved but I find it quite annoying that this is happening.
I googled this issue but didn't really find anything simular to my issue.
It's like it running something very huge to process because if i move my mouse during the freeze it does move my mouse after the freeze.
I monitored my memory but I haven't noticed anything strange (is it normal I only have 5-10% of my 8GB RAM left?)
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this issue?
Kind regards
Mathias

Sorry for the late response
here it is:
Problem description:
Recently I purchased a brand new Mac Mini 2014 and sometimes I have this weird issue. Sometimes my mac has short freezes, i can't move cursor or type anything.
when I reboot my issue is solved but I find it quite annoying that this is happening.
I googled this issue but didn't really find anything simular to my issue.
It's like it running something very huge to process because if i move my mouse during the freeze it does move my mouse after the freeze.
I monitored my memory but I haven't noticed anything strange (is it normal I only have 5-10% of my 8GB RAM left?)
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Macbook keyboard and trackpad randomly freezes

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Any advice to a girl who understands very little about computers would be greatly appreciated.
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