Hey guys,
to speed up my old Mac mini 3,1 (l̶a̶t̶e̶ early 2009) I installed an additional 40GB SSD (replaced the SuperDrive) and upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I now run OSX from the SSD and moved Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Movies, Pictures and Music to the mini's original hard drive via symlinks. While boot and application launch time improved a lot, the Mac mini seems to have problems with the screen resolution and my 47" LG LH3010 TV:
In Snow Leopard the resolution was set to 1080p, I could play 1080p Matroska files without any issues whatsoever, the Mini ran all apps just fine.
In Mavericks I can only set the resolution to 1080i (after alt-clicking 'scaled'), 1080p video stutters and the whole system is getting really slow and sluggish.
I did read about people's problems setting their proper resolution in Mavericks, possible due to aftermarket VGA/Displayport adapters, but this can't be the reason for an almost identical hardware to stop being able to handle the same display as before, can it?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
V
to speed up my old Mac mini 3,1 (l̶a̶t̶e̶ early 2009) I installed an additional 40GB SSD (replaced the SuperDrive) and upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. I now run OSX from the SSD and moved Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Movies, Pictures and Music to the mini's original hard drive via symlinks. While boot and application launch time improved a lot, the Mac mini seems to have problems with the screen resolution and my 47" LG LH3010 TV:
In Snow Leopard the resolution was set to 1080p, I could play 1080p Matroska files without any issues whatsoever, the Mini ran all apps just fine.
In Mavericks I can only set the resolution to 1080i (after alt-clicking 'scaled'), 1080p video stutters and the whole system is getting really slow and sluggish.
I did read about people's problems setting their proper resolution in Mavericks, possible due to aftermarket VGA/Displayport adapters, but this can't be the reason for an almost identical hardware to stop being able to handle the same display as before, can it?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
V
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