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I might have the slowest Mac in the world

MOFS said:
There appears to be a custom OS modifier (your icon highlighter is a tiny power icon) underlying your system.

The other thing you could do is obviously make sure you update all your software to the most up to date versions, and also ensure that you have plenty of free space on your HD drive.
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Yes, you've got several OS extensions (the icons at the top of your menu bar). Your Dashboard widgets are also taking up about 100MB of RAM. The HP Smart Panel is also bit of an resource hog. (most printer Smart Panels are). You may have other bits of installed but no-longer-used stuff taking up resources.

I had a terrible slow-down on a macbook, which I think I traced down to some sort of roaming wifi profile I installed when visiting a university, which ended up installing a whole bunch of other drivers and background services. Took some time to rip all that out.

You could try reinstalling your OS and only installing the apps you really really need. Do you absolutely need to know your fan speed?

Onyx can also help give a spring clean.

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tom vilsack said:
As i said above,i own same model,same specs...it runs great and no issues with running sl at all!
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I'm happy it all works for you. Clearly it meets your needs perfectly well. The other guys are having problems though, so let's try to sort them out.

Obviously they don't have much money to buy upgrades, so I'm suggesting what can be done for free, so that their systems run as smoothly as yours.
 
Right now I have the mini up for auction on ebay. 3 days and 8 hours left. If I get eve half of a new mini for all my junk I'll probably look into a new mini. Even if no ivy version comes out at least I have the latest os and I'm good for another 2 years.
 
When I had the core solo 512MB version of that machine I was pretty grumpy. Max out the ram to 2GB. It's cheap and you dont even need to buy special Mac ram for it.
Also upgrading to a better CPU is not terribly hard I have a T7200 in mine now which is a 2ghz Core 2 Duo. Just make sure you get the right type of chip. Some have pins, some dont. You want pins.
It's rally a shame they limit these to 2GB. I had a wintel laptop that had the same chipset which would do 4gb no problem. Heck that is the one I scavenged parts for my mini from!
 
calaverasgrande said:
When I had the core solo 512MB version of that machine I was pretty grumpy. Max out the ram to 2GB. It's cheap and you dont even need to buy special Mac ram for it.
Also upgrading to a better CPU is not terribly hard I have a T7200 in mine now which is a 2ghz Core 2 Duo. Just make sure you get the right type of chip. Some have pins, some dont. You want pins.
It's rally a shame they limit these to 2GB. I had a wintel laptop that had the same chipset which would do 4gb no problem. Heck that is the one I scavenged parts for my mini from!
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You can load the firmware for the 2007 Mac Minu on to the 2006 (I.e. core solo and core duo) models once you have upgraded to a core2duo like you have. This will allow you to install 4gb of RAM (although only be able to address a little over 3gb). I've done this to both of my 2006 Mac minis.
 
paulrbeers said:
You can load the firmware for the 2007 Mac Minu on to the 2006 (I.e. core solo and core duo) models once you have upgraded to a core2duo like you have. This will allow you to install 4gb of RAM (although only be able to address a little over 3gb). I've done this to both of my 2006 Mac minis.
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Really? How do you trick it to load the "wrong" firmware?
 
iBookG4user said:
I like how the OP hasn't replied yet. I bet they just wanted a pity party rather than suggestions.
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Yep. That was why my initial post in this thread was snotty about getting a job. It was clear the OP just wanted to have a pitty party since s/he never asked a real question, just stated s/he had a slow Mac. For all we know, S/he doesn't even have a Mac....
 
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