Hi...

Isnt the appropiate forum to ask but i prefer it, i have a little partition on my macmini for osx 10.4 and i want to make more responsive, i deactivate the useless dashboard but system still like a turtle.

Anything else for disable and save resouces?

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 15.05.2011 - 09:02 ]

Same here. I have an iBook with 1.25 Ghz/1.25 GB and a mini with 1.5 Ghz/512 MB. The ibook is much faster on OSX than the mini just due the memory.

Please also note that updating the harddrive will increase the speed.60/80 GB models are quite old and compared to modern 160/320 GB drives slow, so virtual memory is - expecially on low memory systems - faster with a new drive.

In my case both system have the same drive model build in, so speed difference is just the memory.

Geit

On my mini i got excellent response when upgrading to 1gb. Also, some time before my ram stick went faulty, i noticed a bit of slow in general usage.
Also, i'm planning on upgrading the hd, but ide drives nowadays are scarce. Will a sata drive with an adaptor make an improvement in speed over the mini original drive?.

Yeah, try to increase the amount of memory... Recently, on a hardware meeting at geit, i've seen a Powermac G4 singlecore with 450 or 500 Mhz (don't quite remember), which had 1,5 gb RAM and a Radeon 9800, and it felt very fast, much faster than my Mac mini 1,5 1GB (ok, the Powermac had "only" Tiger installed, while i had Leopard on my Mac mini). Memory makes a huge difference.

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Perhaps, but you likely wont be able to fit it in the case, WDs 2.5" PATA drives shouldn't be hard to find.

Maybe becomes slow in time but from the first day is a operating system too heavy, windows xp seems more agile sometimes, not mention to this multicolor circle that freezes everything.

PS: i cant edit the typo error on the post subject, sorry.

[ Edited by kickstart on 2010/3/24 20:10 ]

So, it's difficult to get an hd upgrade then?

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No.

Well, the multicolor circle is actually an side effect of something blocking execution.
It pops up if the application hasn't voluntarily yielded for X no# of seconds, I believe it's around 15 seconds.