My Mini came with 2gb, and that was miserable. I had half-formed dreams of switching to a Macbook, but I finally caved about ten months ago and got 8gb from new egg.com. The difference is extraordinary! I never run out now, though, as I said, performance is worse now than under Mountain Lion. That's ironic, as one big feature of Mavericks was the lower memory usage and better performance. Whatever Apple says, when a 2007 Mini running Lion feels way snappier than my 2011 Mini running Mavericks, we have a serious problem. On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
> Hope it helps. I usually start having performance issues when I run out of > RAM than anything else. Not as big an issue now that I have 8GB but it was > kinda tight when I had 4. > > CB > > On 1/6/14 11:48 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> Thanks, and it's worth a shot. However, I've seen no improvement at all >> after doing the PRAM reset, except that Spoken Items seems to respond faster >> the couple times I've used it. Still, anything to avoid a complete >> re-install of my OS (and, more to the point, all my apps and settings) is >> fine with me. >> On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> According to Apple you can reset the SMC on a mini by shutting it down, >>> unplugging it from power for 15 seconds, plugging it back in, waiting 5 >>> seconds and powering it back up. >>> >>> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 1/6/14 6:59 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >>>> Thanks. My troubles are more slowness opening mail and apps, and >>>> occasional audio stuttering even with Voiceover. I still haven't gone >>>> ahead with the huge step of the clean install, but maybe resetting the >>>> PRAM will help things. It's worth a shot at least. This SMC reset does not >>>> seem as likely to help, and I have a Mini so can't remove the battery or >>>> anything. >>>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The PRAM reset stuff happens as part of the hardware self-check, long >>>>> before any boot loaders and other software is executed. What are the >>>>> advantages of resetting the PRAM? PRAM is used to hold a lot of little >>>>> details semi-permanently. Things related to which drive/partition to >>>>> boot, speaker/sound settings, display settings and more. If they get >>>>> mangled somehow your machine can start behaving badly while it goes on a >>>>> fruitless search for a drive which doesn't exist or route sound to >>>>> nowhere. So doing a resent puts things back to factory fresh. Exactly >>>>> what is stored on PRAM varies between Mac models. There is also the SMC >>>>> for System Management Controller on Intel Macs. The SMC controls things >>>>> like power, fans and system performance so you might want to try >>>>> resetting that as well. On a laptop you'll have to unplug it, pull the >>>>> battery and hold down the power button for 5 seconds to drain the last >>>>> bit of juice. That resets the SMC to factory. >>>>> >>>>> CB >>>>> >>>>> On 1/6/14 4:56 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >>>>>> What if you have a boot manager? I have Refit installed, so will this >>>>>> work for me or do I need to boot into Mac and then hold down the keys? >>>>>> Also, what exactly are the advantages of doing this? I've heard a lot >>>>>> about it, but am not sure why one might actually need to do it. >>>>>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Power down your machine, hold down command+option+P+R and keep holding >>>>>>> them while you power up the machine. You should hear the startup sound >>>>>>> after a bit. I usually keep them down until I've heard the startup >>>>>>> sound a couple time - maybe three or four - and then let off the keys >>>>>>> to allow a normal startup. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> CB >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 1/6/14 12:13 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: >>>>>>>> Can someone explain the procedure to reset the Prams on a Mac? My >>>>>>>> system has slowed down and I think this might help. I tried to search >>>>>>>> the archives, but could not do so as I didn't find a link in the >>>>>>>> e-mail message to do so as is the case with the iPhone list. Thanks. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Les >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> ￣\_(ツ)_/￣ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>>> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>>> Have a great day, >>>>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>>>> mehg...@gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ￣\_(ツ)_/￣ >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> mehg...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> ￣\_(ツ)_/￣ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> > > -- > ￣\_(ツ)_/￣ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. 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