Mac Mini :: Will Overloading ITunes Slow Down
Mar 24, 2012
So my family and I purchased a mac mini to act as a music server for our whole house system. we then use a ipad, iphone to control it and it works sweet. what i am noticing though is a slower more sluggish mac mini. i am importing a ton of music in and i am saving all music files to a 2 TB g-safe. i have about 57 gb so far on my g safe. now when i start up the mac mini everthing seems fine. its after i start up itunes, things start to go sluggish. is there anything i can do to make things faster? or reconfigure in any way?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 21, 2012
I've been running into some serious issues with CPU Overloading, specifically in Logic 9. I have an 8 Core Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM. I have 13 lines of midi and one line of audio. It started as an overload while playing the project back so I thought it was my plug-ins (Eastwest Quantum Leap), but now it doesnt need play back to max out CPU. I can sit idol with the project open, no play back, midi tracks frozen, only to move the mouse and have CPU overload.
I realize from reading other threads that, "...just because you have an 8 Core computer doesnt mean your program delegates activities efficiently", but THIS is just rediculous.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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Nov 12, 2009
I was doing software update today when all of a sudden my computer seemed to be overloading from the apps I was running prior...After 10 minutes of "Circle of Death" I performed a emergency shut down. (Probably not the best idea) Afterwards I restarted and was stuck on the main loading screen, (Apple with grey swirling circle) I left this for about 20 minutes came back to check on it and nothing had happened, several restarts with no new conclusion.I popped in the startup disk and ran a diagnostic on it with everything coming back fine...What the heck do I do now?
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Oct 31, 2010
I am running an M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 MIDI controller via USB into Logic Express 7. I use Mac OSX. I'm going straight from the Keystation Pro 88 into the MIDI port of my MacBook Pro. I use a Pre Sonus Firepod as my audio interface (not sure if that's even relevant...).
When I begin playing too many notes (especially after pressing the sustain), the piano (Garage Band grand piano .exs) starts to cut out. It sounds like BAD static, as if the MIDI were overloading Logic. I've tried changing the buffer size in audio preferences - it gets no better, only worse when I lower the size (32 being nothing but static).
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Aug 22, 2010
Anyone have any idea why the new 2.4ghz mac mini encdoes videos from DVD so slowly? it takes me twice as much time as my 09 mini.
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Jul 4, 2010
I finally took plunge and grabbed a new mini. I have it wired directly to my airport and the web browsing is slow on it. For example I will go to engadget.com and it will only load half way and then just stop. I thought maybe my internet was going crazy but my windows desktop connected "right next to it on airport" loads instantly.
It does this on different web sites. I even did the safari reset but its same issue. Any suggestions on what I can do to trouble shoot? I dont want to take this thing back.
I was also wondering if there was a way to Mirror my display but with two different resolutions? I have googled this and cant find a straight answer at least not from anything posted in last couple years....
I have 1900x1200 on my Pc display and I have an HDMI going under house to My 65" Plasma which is 1900x1080
Any software tweaks I can do? This is a permanent setup with the ipad as the remote....
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Sep 30, 2010
As I continue to buy into the never ending Apple ecosystem I now need a cheapo Mini to run our iTunes library 24/7.
Want to have it run Home Share for our new Apple TV's.
Will a cheap Core Solo work? Need to share out Quicktime files in HD and then music, plus read our Aperture Library.
I'm not familiar with the entire product line so must have Gigabit, don't care if it burns DVD's just so long as it reads them.
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Sep 5, 2010
My Mac mini 2010 model with 60SSD 4GB ram, vmware fusion windows 7 ent. Very choppy and bad performance,
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Oct 30, 2008
i just bought a C2D 1.83 2GB 80GB Mac Mini for a bargain and a new 24" Screen (1920 resolution). Working with "Numbers", I noticed that it runs really slow and behaves like it has not enough power. If you mark a couple of cells for instance, there is always a delay until the cells are marked. Ir is really annoying. Could it be because the Intel graphics is too slow to manage this high resolution??? Or is it a software issue? I installed iStat and the utilization of both cores normally doesn�t exceed 60-70%. But still 60-70% is a lot for working in numbers, right?? Should I sell the 24" screen and buy a 22" with lower resolution?? Or to try a reinstall of Mac OS?
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Dec 22, 2008
why my mac mini wont start and if it does it takes a long time. Thinking about upgrading ram and hard drive
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Jun 30, 2010
First sorry for my english.I bought the new mac mini last week and I have a problem with wifi and downloads jdownloader.When I put the links in jdownloader it was very slow and there is up and down of speed.In my macbook not problem with the same links and it is always maximum of speed.Anyone have same problem?I've refund two mac mani for this problem.
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Dec 4, 2008
By Mac Mini is behaving oddly. It slows down occasionally, with the spinning wheel of "time to make a cup of coffee" appearing frequently.
DiskWarrior and Tech Tool Pro has failed to resolve the issue. Disc utility repair using the original installation disc hasn't helped either.
Using Preferential Treatment, it appears that ./com.apple.SystemLogin.Items.plist is corrupt (Cannot parse a NULL or zero-length data).
If this is relevant, how can I delete/repair it?
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Mar 22, 2012
I installed windows 7 on my mac mini and installed all drivers. after 2 days I decided to enable WOL but I faced a very slow file transfer over my network.
Info:Windows 7
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Apr 4, 2012
Since I downloaded the Lion, it takes a long time to start up the mini.
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Mac, Mac OS X (10.5.4), MacBook Pro
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Apr 7, 2012
I've bought mac mini 2011 with lion and last upgrade system but i have very slow connection with internet via ethernet than my pc.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 10, 2012
Mini Mac very slow for everyday tasks.
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), iOS 5.1
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Apr 21, 2012
I installed windows 7 on my mac mini and installed all drivers. after 2 days I decided to enable WOL but I faced a very slow file transfer over my network.I disabled WOL but currently I face random slow connection on file transfer, slow as as 50 Kb file transfer.
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Windows 7
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May 30, 2012
Ever since I upgraded my mini to OS 10.7.4, my system is much slower.
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 16, 2012
My mac mini is slow, is it because of low memory?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 19, 2012
I have a 2011 mid range mac mini and love the machine, however I have noticed a few things. First off, it seems to be a bit on the slow side when multitasking. I have the standard 4 gigs of ram installed, but running programs like MS Word and Safari at the same time, the machine seems to struggle a bit. Also I have noticed when doing a lot of file transfers via USB, the fan will kick up to high gear for a few minutes and then drop down. Is there something wrong or is this normal? I'm doing a time machine backup of 120Gigs, have safari open and activity monitor open. Activity monitor states 1.16Gigs free, 792MB wired, 961.4MB active, 1.12GB inactive, 2.84GB used. VM size is 150GB, page ins are 962, outs are 380kb, swap used is 10.5MB. Right now the fan seems to have slowed to a mid range mode of some sort and is not in high gear.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 500GB HDD, 4GB Ram, AMD 6630
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Nov 8, 2009
For some reason, I've noticed it's a bit slower than my MBP in opening and saving documents from iwork and office 2008. I made a keynote presentation that came out to 25MB and I tried to export it as a powerpoint file to email to my classmates. It took a long time and a couple times, it had the colorful swirl circling for the longest time. I left my computer for a while and finally it was done. With my MBP, this procedure is done within seconds or at most, a minute. Anyone having this issue? If its an issue, should i fresh reinstall my OS and reinstall the latest backup? The backup i'm using now when i first got this mac mini is from my MBP.
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May 1, 2012
I have a issue where I get the spinning beach ball of death and it lasts for about 20-30 secs, but I get this every 4-5 mins..I have used CleanMyMac to remove all the crap and run all the cleaning and maintence tasks on Onyx to clear the computer up; to be fair it is kept very clean most of the time anyway.I have checked the hard drive and corrected all permissions as well as verifying the drive itself.I have run a Memtest 2 pass on the RAM and had no errors.Both of these were done in single user mode from boot using the Terminal.I am running a 2009 Mac Mini with a 2.6 Core2Duo, 6Ghz RAM, 160GB SSD drive. It is plugged in via the mini display port to an HD Tv and connected through the optical port to an amp for audio. I am using the wireless bluetooth Mac keyboard and Magic Mouse.
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Jul 3, 2012
What is the best use/purpose for the Mac Mini? My wife's G4 (Granite) Tower is ancient and slow and freezes up frequently so it's time to get another computer. I have a 5 year old MacBook Pro sitting unused after I bought a 2.13GHz MacBook Air . I am contemplating buying a Mac Mini or an 11 inch AirBook. The Macbook Air would give some flexibility to the household by being portable. She does only basic stuff, nothing fancy, so anything will be better than what she's using now. (At some point in the future, I may give my son the Airbook for college and get a new one for me, but that's not what I want to do now.)So my question to the community would be what do you recommend?
1) Reformat and use the 5 year old MacBook Pro (free)
2) Mac Mini? ($599) (I have an external monitor, keyboard and an external Mac Disk Drive so no need to buy them.)
3) MacBookAir 11 inch ($1100)
4) iMac ($1200) (I think this is overkill for her.)
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Jul 5, 2012
My Mini Mac (early 2006) was working ok till 2 days ago when the boot times went into the 4 minute range with the USB CD printer from primera pluged in. I check the firm ware on both devices and they are current.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Jul 3, 2012
i am using mac os lion 10.7.4 and saffari 5.1.7 and from one week i am facing very slow surfing for all wesites and always hangups on my facebook usage on it, Now i ahs to clean the cashe and all aftr each net srff.. and its nt due to the network issue becoz i am using the same wifi connection for my ipad 3 and windows laptop both of that works properly.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2), core i5 ( 2.3 Ghz) Ram 2gb
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Dec 28, 2009
My Mac Mini has been running slow since I upgraded to Leopard several months ago. It is not Snow Leopard. My Mac Mini is running software version 10.5.8 and my processor is a 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 with 512 MB RAM. Am I running slow since my Mac Mini is intel? Should I switch it back to Tiger or is there any other suggestions you can make. I have run the disk utility and have run the repair permissions. The computer is especially slow on Safari where it is faster on my MacBook pro.
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Jan 24, 2010
I just got a brand new Mac Mini 2,26 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2 gig RAM, and it's hooked up to my tv with a mini-DVI adapter. Snow Leopard installed. I noticed right away that the screen looks really sluggish, with screen tearing and laggy video performance. Playing videos in Plex for instance there is a lot of screen tear and I had to set the display to 720p to get it decent, and even then it's rough, even on SD videos! So I ran Xbench, and got a remarkable slow score on OpenGL; 43. My MacBook Pro running with the 9400M card got 97.
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Jun 1, 2012
My Mac Mini is running extremely slow - I get a spinning ball at every move. Ready to throw it out the window.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Oct 21, 2009
My trusty G5 dual tower 1.8 is competent, but slow for HD video rendering. Would the new Mini be a significant upgrade for me? I have a great monitor and keyboard already. I can't see much difference between the Mini and standard Imac, beside the slower internal drive. If I use an external firewire drive for capturing, would this no longer be an issue?
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Mar 8, 2012
I have a 5 year old Mac Mini running OSX 10.4.11 and iTunes 9.2.1. The iTunes folder in the Music Folder containing Album Artwork, iTunes Library, Lib-Extras.itob, Lien-enius.itob, Mus. Library.xml is located on the INTERNAL Drive. The iTunes Music File Folder is on an external G-Drive Mini. I just purchased newest Mac Mini running Lion and iTunes 10.6. I want to move the iTunes folder and the Music File Folder from my old Mac Mini to the NEW INTERNAL Drive eliminating the external drive.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iTunes 9.2.1 and 10.6
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