12-04-2011, 02:33 AM
I have a 2009 Mac mini/2gb with two 1tb owc firewire external drives hooked up to the TV as an HTPC. It runs eyetv 100% of the time and I usually use safari to get Netflix or view shows on network sites, megavideo, etc. Also, my son occasionally uses it for games. The problem is that this thing gets very sluggish, with frequent spinning beachballs. I hate to have to reboot every time I use it, which is every 2 to 3 days. I'm wondering how to get rid of the sluggishness. Would bumping the ram do anything for me in this application or would a small SSD boot drive make things better?