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I don't think it sounds like the same thing - though, if you find the solution to your roommate's issue I'd love to hear it.

I have a new (< 6 months) Mac Mini running ML and it's infuriatingly slow opening applications. It's not unusual to wait 10-15 seconds after clicking to open Chrome or Spotify (or anything else). My 5 year old MacBook does the same thing in a fraction of the time (running SL).



Are you people writing this technical / developers?

I mean, have you tried obvious things to find what's at fault? Like "Activity Monitor", "fs_usage" and such?

Have you checked if you have apps that install kernel hacks? Or some badly written memory hog app installed in the menubar to run all the time?

A < 6 months Mac Mini should have no such issues.


Yes - looked at all the obvious things you mentioned (though I hadn't seen fs_usage before, very useful, will see if that shows anything up).

There's virtually nothing installed on the box - we stream pretty much everything and it's only used as a media center style machine.

I've made an appointment with the genius bar to see if they can shed some light on the issue.


Well, since you already tried the most techy things, then yes, the Apple service is your best bet.




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