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I just bought a 2012 with the i5 and 4 gb RAM. Something is NOT right. Right along side it -for comparison purposes is my macbookpro -2009 -dula core with the stock 4gb ram.
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The mac mini is on its knees. With ZERO programs open the RAM available is just 1,100 mb -with about 6 firefox windows open the sbbod happened ALL the time and the available memory is around 300 mb.
The mac book pro -with inferior specs -right ? - has the SAME windows etc etc and has 1,900 MB OF AVIALBLE RAM - HOWVER NO SBBOD!!!!
The Mini Mac is way to slow...but why? I just bought it 2 days ago - very dissapointed so far.
Yes, I know installing 16gb of ram will (may) fix it - but the out of the box expreince is jusy messed up!
Ideas? Thoughts? Same issue?
Hi Johnfromoro,
I'm having the exact same issue as you, my old iMac 2006 seemed more fluent and less laggy/jerky then my new 2.6 GHZ quad core i7 mac mini. If I open a app I get the randbow wheel (yeh nothing else is open) I mean come on a quad core i7 can't open one application fluently?
I too have experience very high swap files also at a 1GB - this seems very odd considering I had 1.5 GB unused ram left? The applications that ran on my old iMac seemed to work alot smoother, I was expecting with the stats that Apple launched and I read about, that this would eat my old iMac for breakfast but I'm sitting here thinking. "Is this it??" It just lacking the whole sales pitch I was given about 78 % faster here and there!
Please could you let me know what Apple say about this cause I'm wondering if I too have a faulty machine or is this the "power" the mac mini offers?
P.S. I ran the disk ultility repair (no improvement), also I time machined all the files/data from my iMac to the new mac mini.
Kind Regards
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