Quick question about Mac Minis

Antomus Prime

Hey guys, first time poster in here. Hopefully someone in here can help me with this.

I'm big into photography and video editing and the PC I have, althought its pretty good spec, sometimes slows down to buggery and gets very jumpy.

A friend of mine uses a mac mini for doing the same thing and the difference in performance is unreal, (fairly similar spec hardware wise). He told me that its because the Mac os uses alot less resources but also says that they're built better.

So my question is...... If I was to buy a Mac and then install Windows on it (I hate the mac os) would I have the same problem with it slowing down all the time?

TBH this sounds like a silly question but I just thought I'd ask.

Cheers in advance guys!

yoyo

Antomus Prime wrote: »

Hey guys, first time poster in here. Hopefully someone in here can help me with this.

I'm big into photography and video editing and the PC I have, althought its pretty good spec, sometimes slows down to buggery and gets very jumpy.

A friend of mine uses a mac mini for doing the same thing and the difference in performance is unreal, (fairly similar spec hardware wise). He told me that its because the Mac os uses alot less resources but also says that they're built better.

So my question is...... If I was to buy a Mac and then install Windows on it (I hate the mac os) would I have the same problem with it slowing down all the time?

TBH this sounds like a silly question but I just thought I'd ask.

Cheers in advance guys!

No, A Mac wouldn't run Windows any faster if similarly specced. They are not better built, in fact some of the hardware choices Apple make are quite the opposite. Anyways for your current PC what are the specs? How much RAM do you have?
RAM upgrades are cheap, although the problem could also be a dodgy hard disk you have (as hard drives get older or faulty they can get slow/unresponsive). What version of Windows do you have? If its XP it would be worth defragmenting/also check out using CCleaner to delete temporary files off it. Use msconfig to disable unneccesary stuff starting up and see if you notice an improvement

Nick

Antomus Prime

yoyo wrote: »

No, A Mac wouldn't run Windows any faster if similarly specced. They are not better built, in fact some of the hardware choices Apple make are quite the opposite. Anyways for your current PC what are the specs? How much RAM do you have?
RAM upgrades are cheap, although the problem could also be a dodgy hard disk you have (as hard drives get older or faulty they can get slow/unresponsive). What version of Windows do you have? If its XP it would be worth defragmenting/also check out using CCleaner to delete temporary files off it. Use msconfig to disable unneccesary stuff starting up and see if you notice an improvement

Nick

Cheers Nick,

The PC Specs are...
4GB ram (maxed)
Amd dual core 2.3ghz
250gb Hard Drive (plan on upgrading to 1tb if i keep the machine)
Has (afaik) a Geforce 1gb graphics card

I regularly do a defrag and clean up and alreday set the start up progs to the bare minimum. It could actually be the Hard drive cause its not the newest built pc......

Antomus Prime

Also Ive gotten this message a few times and had to restart the machine....... What does this mean?

yoyo

Antomus Prime wrote: »

Also Ive gotten this message a few times and had to restart the machine....... What does this mean?

I can't see that picture, please upload it to www.imgur.com and place it here, I think you may have a dodgy hard disk, your spec sounds decent and its prob better than you'd get in a Mac Mini (For one the video card)

Nick

Antomus Prime

yoyo wrote: »

I can't see that picture, please upload it to www.imgur.com and place it here, I think you may have a dodgy hard disk, your spec sounds decent and its prob better than you'd get in a Mac Mini (For one the video card)

Nick

Can you see this??

Antomus Prime

Holy crap thats big!!! lol

yoyo

Antomus Prime wrote: »

Can you see this??

http://i.imgur.com/bBCjV.jpg

See it perfectly. This error is likely to do with a defective hard drive or memory modules. Blue screen errors like this are not normal and are usually hardware related, although there is the possibility of being software related.
Download the Ultimate boot CD and burn it onto a blank CD-R. Now reboot the computer and boot off the CD. This is usually done in the BIOs by setting the "Boot Disk Priorty" to CD-ROM first, some manufacturers have a hot key such as [F12] to access a boot menu while the machine posts (ie when you see the manufacturers logo before the windows startup loading).
First when the disc has booted navigate to "Memory" and open "Memtest86+". Leave memtest running for several hours (do it overnight if you like). If it returns with any errors you have a faulty RAM module, if alls good next tackle the hard drive.
Boot off CD again, this time navigate to HDD>Diagnostics. Inside here open Seatools for Dos 2.23. Confirm all prompts and when you enter Seatools run a quick test and if passes a long test. If either quick or long test fails->You need a new hard drive

Nick

Antomus Prime

Thanks for the help nick. I'll give it a go