2012 Mac Mini - Slowing Down?
I have an interesting and frustrating issue that recently started occurring to my mac mini 2012. It seems to be slowing down! I first noticed the problem with Security Spy, our mac-based video surveillance program. It was acting noticeably slower than it had been before. After wasting hours and hours of troubleshooting, I started wondering if the problem wasn't a bigger one than Security Spy. On a hunch, I quit everything but Pandora and ran Geekbench. The resulting scores were all in the low 3000's - this from a quad core 2.6ghz i7 with 16gb of RAM! Most of the other scores were in the 6 to 12,000 range. And I then ran Geekbench on my 2008 macbook pro, getting in the same low 3000 range. http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/compare/2110602/2110475
While lower Geekbench numbers alone are definitive, that coupled with the lowered performance of Security Spy suggests to me that something is going on. I've tried restarting and doing a fresh Geekbench, to no avail. Before I go through the standard troubleshooting steps of reinstalling Mountain Lion or doing the Apple Hardware Test, I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced something similar. iStat Pro reports normal temps, with CPU temps around 150-160 fahrenheit. And Geekbench reports all four cores for a total of 8 cores with hyper-threading. I'm going to do more troubleshooting once our restaurant closes and I can fuss around with it more. But I'd love to hear anyone's suggestions.