Q: The speed/performance of my mac mini (Mid 2010) is very slow. Need help consolidating files, software upgrades, etc. to help improve speed and performance.
The speed/performance of my mac mini (Mid 2010) is very slow - thinking this is a result of letting my kids do "whatever" on it for the past few years. Need help consolidating files, software upgrades, etc. to help improve speed and performance. Also need to get data off of old PowerBook G4.
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Mac mini, Running OS X El Capitan v10.11.2
Posted on Apr 12, 2016 11:54 AM
And that could explain lot of slowness.
Apple shows your model as 8 meg max
But some other sites show it is possible to have more memory
http://blog.macsales.com/16302-some-2010-mac-owners-can-get-more-ram-than-they-t hought
If you find your model (click on this image to see how)
http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/nwt_battery/imgs/model_id_screen.gif
you can check here to see if that is the case
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/
(Note, this is just one source of RAM chips that a contributors here have used. There are others)
Youtube has videos on how to do this if you are so inclined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvprIXkC0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uvIBpTSaQ
A competent computer person who specializes in Macs can help you with this as well as migrating files and so on.
Posted on Apr 10, 2016 11:33 AM