Another thought on the ssd fixing a slow macmini.
The operating system had to be reinstalled too. Perhaps that was the source of
the fix.
An apple store will do that for free, or at least my local one does. You could
do it yourself using the recovery method or download approach..
On Wed,
This raises a question, what does slow mean? Is it slow in loading apps. and
otherwise responding or is it slow to bootup ?
A ssd isn't going to make a difference to any large degree with usual app.
functionality.
I have a macmini the same model as your's. The harddrive went bad and I
I have an Apple store here and a tech who will come to the house although of
course he's expensive. but I don't think I want to ship it anywhere if I don't
have to.
> On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:47 PM, David The Computer Guy
> wrote:
>
> No, I am not, but you could ship to California and I can
No, I am not, but you could ship to California and I can install an SSD.
Otherwise you can take it to the Apple Store, my rate is $20 per hour. You
cover shipping.
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> On Sep 29, 2020, at 9:29 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote:
>
> oh geeez! I'm not capable
oh geeez! I'm not capable of doing all that. I guess I could call my tech out
here. my model is the middle one, very late 2014. December I think. I don't
suppose you're in Texas.
> On Sep 28, 2020, at 8:53 PM, David The Computer Guy
> wrote:
>
> I just fixed a 2014 Mac mini for a guy that
I just fixed a 2014 Mac mini for a guy that was running quite slowly and had
the spinning beachball, I put in the solid-state hard drive and it took off
like a sculled ally cat. The model that I did the upgrade on is the entry-level
model that cost about $499 back in 2016. Ended up having to
it's late 2014.
> On Sep 28, 2020, at 4:50 PM, matthew dyer
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Using 10αeγ do not have this problem. What year mac mini is it? I have the
> 2018 mottle with 16 GB of ram and a 1 tb SSD. HTH.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From:
Hi,
Using 10αeγ do not have this problem. What year mac mini is it? I have the
2018 mottle with 16 GB of ram and a 1 tb SSD. HTH.
Matthew
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On
Behalf Of Lorie McCloud
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 3:47 PM
To: 'Donna
go to terminal /console under applications /utilities in finder
type ds, see how much space you have
type 'top' see which apps are running how much ram they are using , remove
the apps you no longer use
type 'ps -aux' to see the full path of the applications currently running,
see any that not
ok. well mine's late 2014 so that might be part of the problem.
> On Sep 28, 2020, at 3:37 PM, 'Danny Keys' via MacVisionaries
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a 2018 year model mac mini and I’m not having any problems at all.
>
>
>> On Sep 28, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote:
>>
>> some
Hi,
I have a 2018 year model mac mini and I’m not having any problems at all.
> On Sep 28, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote:
>
> some update has really slowed my Mac Mini down. I don't know what it was but
> I restarted in order to install something and now my Mac is really dragging.
>
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