Performance of new Mac Mini Server is awful compared to a 2007 Macbook Pro laptop

Remember that your Macbook has a dedicated video card while the mini has integrated video so, it uses system memory for video ram. I have a mid 2011 Mac Mini Server 2GHz quad-core i7 w/16GB of RAM that I use as a daily machine and have no issues. Now, I recently added a SSD for my boot drive which makes it night & day faster.

Here is a little more info on the Video in your mini (Intel HD Graphics 4000)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3246#intel4000

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First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.

One possible cause of a slow user interface is a large number of image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons. If you have more than a dozen or so such files, move them to another folder.

Otherwise, take these steps when you notice the slowdown.

Step 1

Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.

Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.

Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.

Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.

Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?

Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)

Step 2

If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.

Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.

Select the 50 or so most recent messages in the log. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.

When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.

Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

So I'm assuming the memory arrived? I guess it solved the problem since Jeff Nitschke's reply has turned green?

ijamessaxon , only the original poster can marked them as solved and most posters never mark them as solved.

ijamessaxon wrote:

So I'm assuming the memory arrived? I guess it solved the problem since Jeff Nitschke's reply has turned green?