I don't have a monitor plugged in, and will not go out of my way to get one. I've tried plugging in the dvi-to-vga adapter thing, but I don't think it had an effect (I know apps which crashed or errored due to lack of video such as dvd player or anything relying on OpenGL didn't behave differently). I upgraded it with ram from newegg - I don't remember whether or not it was apple-licensed or whatever. It was certainly cheaper overall than it would've cost to get the mac mini w/ 2 gigs out of the box (believe it or not - that's apple for you). I'd disable the dashboard but really haven't bothered - I think I heard about some sort of commercial solution, but why run another app just to disable one which is already running (spotless to disable spotlight etc)? It doesn't sound right. Oh well... I've got on for a little over a year this way, I suppose I can continue. It's really finder which gives me the most grief - iTunes is pretty well-behaved since 8.x (excluding smart playlists which I have yet to try out again).
James On 5/4/09, ben mustill-rose <bmustillr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does your harddrive sound healthy? Have you upgraded the ram with non > apple approoved memory (IT REALLY DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE) > > On 04/05/2009, Søren Jensen <s...@coolfortheblind.dk> wrote: >> >> Hi James. >> >> Have you closed all the widgets? I've experienced that widgets makes >> my Macbook pretty slow. >> Best regards >> Søren Jensen >> Mail & MSN: >> s...@coolfortheblind.dk >> Website: >> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >> >> On 03/05/2009, at 20.09, James Dietz wrote: >> >>> >>> I did a brief search to see if this was mentioned before, only to find >>> something on Mac Mini's issues when a mouse isn't hooked up. >>> >>> Certain apps are impossibly slow with my mac mini. These range from >>> iTunes (smart playlist editor and just occasional unexplainable >>> "busy"s from voiceover no matter what I'm doing) to Finder (Copy and >>> other warning dialogues literally hang voiceover for up to 10 seconds >>> before they read anything (only to be interupted by the announcement >>> that finder is ready; attempting o read it again results in another >>> wait and usually another message interupting the desired information). >>> I've a 2.0 ghz 2 gb ram mac mini, and I think it's pretty well >>> equipped to handle something like a dialogue box in finder without >>> hanging so frustratingly. Anyone else having similar issues with >>> minis? I tried my roommate's new macbook and it's a lot more >>> responsive - I haven't interacted with a finder dialogue or similar >>> but switching apps is a little faster. >>> >>> James >>> >>> > >> >> >> > >> > > > -- > Kind regards, BEN. > > email: bmustillr...@gmail.com > msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com > web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
