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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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