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For some reason, my husband's mac mini's sound output
is linked to our Roku player in the living room. We don't
know how it got there since we've never used AirPlay.
His internal speakers and his headphones don't even show
up as options. There's just one device -- the Roku. How
can we change it to the Mac Mini (for internal or external
speakers or the headphones)?
Thanks!!
Hard Drives ware out, they get slower with age and as the fill up.
A good way to do a checkup on your Mac, is to run EtreCheck Pro and then post back here with the report.
To get EtreCheck Pro from the developer, go to > https://etrecheck.com/
For using and posting your EtreCheck Pro report here in the forum,
see > How to use the Add Text Feature When Post… - Apple Community
That is a little strange.
I would first try resetting the NVRAM,
as per > Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
then recheck the sound preference.
If that doesn’t help, startup in Safe Mode,
as per > Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
then recheck the sound preference.
Apple no longer sells new Mac's with those slow HDDs.
The latest 24" M1 iMac models are lightyears ahead of your 21.5" when it comes to speed.
Sadly the $1300 model only has 256GB of storage and upgrading to 512GB of storage take it up to $1500.
Resetting NVRAM seems to have done it! Thank you so much!
It now shows three normal devices (internal speakers, etc.),
but then there's a line below them, and under the line is the
Roku player as a 4th option. Again, we have NO idea how it
ever got in the line up, but I'll look to see if it can be removed.
Thanks again!! -- Suzy and Hubby
Den.Thed, I have had a GIANT problem with my
Yosemite desktop when I updated to Mojave.
Just navigating within a finder window can take
30 seconds per frame. Spinning Beach Ball of
Death is my way of life. I've been told by Apple
in phone calls that it's a "permissions" problem.
Would "resetting NVRAM" do me any good with
this? Just curious... [I know this is off topic...]
-- Suzy
When iMac’s get that old, they can start having hardware issues. Mainly the hard drive starts failing, which in most cases cost more to replace than the iMac is worth.
Sadly there comes a day when it is time to (excuse my candidacy) give it a good wake and recycle.
Someone else suggested that, but here's the background.
I got the Yosemite desktop in 2016. I upgraded to Mojave
in 2018, and it immediately started to slow down. That
slowness has continued to today, but hasn't gotten any
worse. It's behaving now as it did in early 2019. If it were
really a hard drive going south, wouldn't it be "worse" on
some level after this many years? It's not. Can that mean
it really *isn't* the hard drive?
I'm only holding out hope cuz I don't want to go to the
M1 Mac. I like this type of Mac. :-) Thanks.
This will reveal how hopeless I am with this question:
One of the "major issues" is that "this hard drive is too slow."
Well...it was FAST and HAPPY before I upgraded to Mojave.
THAT'S what slowed everything down! How did the hard
drive become degraded like that with an update? Or am I
missing something? Sigh... :-(
Your not hopeless, you just figured out that you picked an entry level iMac, that was really only made to surf the web, playing music and do some light photo work.
Yeah that drive was twice as fast (close to 100MBs) when it was new. Sadly those slower 5400rpm drives were used in the 2013-2019 21.5” base model iMac’s and we’ve seen a lot of them with lower speeds than yours.
IMHO you’ve had a good run with it so far. Unfortunately if you want or need more speed and to run latest software, then you need to think about replacing that iMac with a Mac that has a faster SSD.
Sigh. And whimper. Ok, and I learned something. I was way off
on when I got it. It is considered a 2013, and I actually got it in
mid-2015, NOT late 2016. Found the receipt. So…..
How do I NOT buy a “base” model? Or entry level? I spent lots of
bucks for a TB of memory (RAM?), for it to crap out in 3.5 years???
How can I avoid that next time? What do I order from Apple that
is **NOT** a base model or entry level iMac???
Thanks for ALL this help!!! -- Suzy
Thank you so much for these suggestions! I'll take a look at them,
and for the extra information about each. VERY helpful. And again,
thanks for weighing in on my SLOW Mac and my hubby's issues. :-)
-- Suzy
Hoping this worked...
You’re welcome.
Yeah, but I got 1TB of RAM or Memory or whatever I got,
and it got slow at two years old? Doesn't that seem odd?
ANYWAY, will do the EtreCheck and report back!! THANKS
You're welcome.
can't change sound output - there's only one (strange) option
