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Is there any performance difference between Macbook Air and Mac Mini?
I want an Apple computer but cannot decide between Mac Mini and Macbook Air. I prefer the Mini more, and I own a Logitech Keyboard and mouse and an LG Monitor, so those things are already taken care ...
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Mac Mini 2018 sudden unexplained performance issues
I have a 2018 Mac Mini i7 with 32gb Ram. I have been having strange performance issues lately. I decided to reinstall the OS but it's still happening. I think I noticed the problems initially when I ...
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What would throttle Ethernet speed on a Mac?
I am using a Mac mini for playing media from a local network media server connected by cable (Ethernet). This Mac stays on 24/7 and is prohibited from accessing the Internet (router firewall).
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Python Script Using Efficiency Cores Rather than Performance Cores in M1
I am using moviepy to automate clips to make a video. I am using python 3.10. When I run from pycharm, it is using performance cores to render my videos. But when I moved to crontab to schedule this ...
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Mac Mini's fan is not speeding up when it's under pressure
I have a Mac Mini 2020 with M1 chip. Fan is always working around 1700 rpm no matter the CPU temperature. Even if CPU temperature is 80 degree celsius, it works at the same speed as if it was only ...
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Mac mini fan never surpasses 7%, even while stress testing
I have a 2014 Mac mini with an Intel Core i5 processor. I noticed that no matter how much I used it, the fans barely ramped up. Using iStat Menus I noticed that it would usually stay around its base ...
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apfs speed of mac mini m1 256GB?
I have the M1 mac mini with a 256GB ssd. It is not a fresh disk---I now have only about 30GB remaining.
I am not interested in synthetic raw disk performance, but in performance on the APFS file ...
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Would increasing RAM in a MacMini6,1 (2012) improve performance of MAME?
I am trying to run a recent build of MAME on a Mac Mini from 2012 (MacMini6,1) that has 8GB of RAM installed in it (2x4G) and an SSD. I've found that under Mojave, MAME runs but slows down on a ...
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Why does uptime report load averages over 1.35 even when the system is idle and not running any apps almost 24 hours after boot?
I have a Mac Mini (2014 model, 4GB RAM, 500GB storage) I use mostly for testing cross-platform software I'm working on. It's never been particularly fast but immediately after the latest upgrade from ...
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How to limit RAM in an OSX device? [duplicate]
Related to my other question, I'm about to buy a new Mac Mini. I would like to reduce RAM to 8GB in order to see if 8GB is enough to my daily tasks in my MBP retina 15 early 2013 16GB RAM.
The idea ...
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Mac Mini (Late 2009) - Recommended OSX Version for it?
I have a Mac mini (Late 2009) (hw.model: Macmini3,1, 2 GB RAM) that I've got hooked on my TV primary as a "media consumption" device... but a while ago I updated it to:
Mac-mini:~ javier$ sw_vers
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VNC display of macOS Catalina frozen on login screen after reconnect
I have revived my Mac Mini 3,1 with Catalina thanks to dosdude1's patcher - and so far, it worked great! But, this is actually a Mac Mini Server (from 2009). So the obvious application is to deploy it ...
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Which model has better CPU-performance: iMac MMQA2HN/A or Mac mini MRTR2HN/A?
In this comparison the main difference I see is in the processors.
https://www.apple.com/in/mac/compare/results/?product1=imac-21&product2=mac-mini
Irrespective of other feature differences this ...
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Why is this Mac mini so slow?
To replace my mid-2011 iMac (12 GB RAM, 2.7 GHz i5, Radeon 512 MB), whose Radeon Graphics card is slowly passing away, I purchased a mid-2011 Mac mini (10 GB RAM, 2.5 i5, Radeon 256 MB) with same HD ...
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Very slow to start processes or open applications
I have a Mac Mini (Mid 2011, 8GB RAM) with Yosemite which is getting slower and slower. But the weird thing is that only opening applications or starting new processes (from the terminal) is terribly ...
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What should I do about a Mac Mini whose fusion drive is getting steadily slower and slower?
I have a 2012 Mac Mini (running OS/X 10.11.6) with an Apple-provided internal 1TB fusion drive that appears to be suffering from some kind of performance problem -- it seems to be getting slower and ...
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Mac Mini mouse icon stutters and sometimes unresponsive
The mouse icon on my Mac Mini (macmini6,2 - 10.14.1) has started stuttering. It's not always, but most often. Sometimes it's so bad the icon won't move at all and I cannot click with my Magic Trackpad ...
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Why is my Mac Mini not Turbo Boosting?
I have a late 2014 Mac Mini, with the i7 option, 3 Ghz turbo boosting to 3.5 Ghz according to Apple. To give the system some work to do I am running a ray trace:
$ time povray --benchmark +WT1
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My mac mini freezes - only mouse cursor is alive. What is a problem?
I do not like to shutdown my Mac mini - so it works 24/7.
But sometimes it freezes - I can move my mouse cursor, but anything else is frozen - screen does not react to clicks/keyboard presses - it's ...
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Every several minutes, all my open windows re-adjust their content and text layout
Every several minutes, my computer nearly halts as it all the windows have their content re-adjusted. It seems as though all the text, at least, is being re-rendered. Perhaps the entire window's ...
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Using slower memory?
Mac mini 2011 uses 1333 MHz 1.5v DDR3 memory. My "new" 2012 mini uses 1600 MHz 1.35v DDR3 memory.
I'd like to reuse the slower memory in the newer mini. I'm not adverse to trying this but I'm ...
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Mac Mini 2011 freezes and reboots
My Mac Mini (mid 2011) frequently freezes under medium to heavy graphics load (e.g., while using Citrix RDP or playing games). Until today I used to think this was caused by overheating but after a ...
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is it worth it to install SSD internally, instead of using USB3?
I prefer to keep my boot drive external, so that I can quickly boot using another Mac if my primary Mac fails. I use a USB3 drive dock to connect the drive to my Macs.
I bought a 120GB SSD w/SATA3 (6....
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Mac mini freezes and does not start again until cold
I have a (2012, I think) Mac mini.
After between 20 minutes and an hour of use it freezes, then goes to a black screen. Occasionally the freeze is preceded by graphics corruption, such as coloured ...
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That Kernel Process Bloat
This is probably a question best suited for Apple Support Forums, but after asking variants of this question there to no avail, I will try here instead.
I have a 2012/2013 2.3 GHz i7 Mac Mini w/ 16 ...
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Mac mini wont shutdown
I can't shutdown my Late 2012 Mac mini, running El Capitan, in the normal way, by selecting the Shut Down... on the Apple menu. Every time I try, Finder vanishes and the shutdown progress freezes. I'm ...
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How can I optimize for file sharing on my Mac Mini 2014 (High Sierra 10.13.4)?
I'm running a Mac Mini 2014 with High Sierra (10.13.4) and am experiencing some lag, since adding a pair of Thunderbolt RAID drives. I've also added 25 or so SMB sharing users. Only a few users are ...
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Very slow screen refresh on server screen share
I have a brand new Mac Mini, configured with Intel i7, 16GB, dual SSDs... basically the top of the line Mac Mini you can buy as of 2/1/2014. I also purchased the latest Airport Extreme, with 802.11ac ...
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Mac Mini Keeps freezing and have to manually power down and restart
I have a mac mini 2.3Ghz Intel Core i5 running 2GB 1333 MHz DDR3. The mac keeps freezing. Sometimes while I'm working on it, but often just when I leave it and it won't wake up and I have to hold ...
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Mac Mini has slowed to an unbearable crawl!
I've read a lot of other questions about speed, but my question does not seem to be answered anywhere. My Mac Mini is running so slow that I cannot see what I am typing. It takes up to 15 seconds to ...
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Does an old Intel Core Duo Mac Mini have enough performance to run the latest Garageband?
I am getting a used Mac Mini primarily so I can record music using Garageband.
Will the 2007 or 2009 models have enough performance to run the latest Garageband and latest OS X?
I will at most ...
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Where should i look to improve slow I/O performance measured with dd?
I have been measuring my primary disk I/O with the following command :
dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048k of=/Volumes/Toshiba/tstfile count=1024 2>&1 | grep > sec | awk '{print $1 / 1024 / 1024 / $5, "MB/...
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Will upgrading my 2007 mac-mini from Tiger to Snow Leopard be a performance upgrade?
I'm cleaning my old 2007 mac-mini and am wondering whether I should upgrade it to Snow Leopard while I'm at it?
I want to do this only if this will be any performance upgrade.
Note that I have ...
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For the Apple SSD drives, will they run slower with less free space available?
From what I understand, most SSDs will run slower once there is 20% or less free space available, due to TRIM/garbage collection. However, are Apple SSDs the same way?
The reason I ask is because I'...
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2010 Mac Mini Downgrade
I have a 2010 Mac Mini with no DVD drive and a 5,400 RPM hard drive. Of late, it's begun to get quite sluggish, and I'm fairly sure it's the slow HDD that's to blame.
I took a look at the means of ...
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