OK, this is just sad. Look at the NUC I can make for less $ than the base mini!

[EightyTwenty]

Maybe on super old hardware. Windows 10 seems to have a problem where it starts accumulating a bunch of junk over time and starts running pretty slowly. I’ve already reinstalled it twice in the past year, and I generally don’t install random junk and try to clean it up as much as possible. It’s fine when it’s new, but damn does it turn to crap after a while. This is with a system of only SSD’s, OC’ed i7 and 16gb of RAM.

I've never experienced this on any Windows machine I have ever used, dating back to Windows 95. Your system has a severe hardware malfunction if it's running slowly at those specs. Has nothing to do with Windows 10.

 

[Strelok]

I've never experienced this on any Windows machine I have ever used, dating back to Windows 95. Your system has a severe hardware malfunction if it's running slowly at those specs. Has nothing to do with Windows 10.

Re-read what I said. When the install is brand new it’s super fast, after a while it slows down. My games and whatnot all run perfectly fine even in the “slow” state, but the day-to-day stuff slows down. Opening programs slows down as does boot-up. That’s after stopping programs from starting at start-up.

 

[Cape Dave]

Re-read what I said. When the install is brand new it’s super fast, after a while it slows down. My games and whatnot all run perfectly fine even in the “slow” state, but the day-to-day stuff slows down. Opening programs slows down as does boot-up. That’s after stopping programs from starting at start-up.

How full is your SSD? Is TRIM working properly?

 

[Strelok]

How full is your SSD? Is TRIM working properly?

I always kept it under 50% utilization for the windows drive. This time I installed windows on my newer SATA 3 SSD, so we’ll see how it performs. Random read/write are higher on this one so that should help.

 

[EightyTwenty]

Re-read what I said. When the install is brand new it’s super fast, after a while it slows down. My games and whatnot all run perfectly fine even in the “slow” state, but the day-to-day stuff slows down. Opening programs slows down as does boot-up. That’s after stopping programs from starting at start-up.

It's a hardware problem. Maybe your CPU is overheating or your SSD is defective. Has got nothing to do with Windows 10.

 

[Queen6]

Maybe on super old hardware. Windows 10 seems to have a problem where it starts accumulating a bunch of junk over time and starts running pretty slowly. I’ve already reinstalled it twice in the past year, and I generally don’t install random junk and try to clean it up as much as possible. It’s fine when it’s new, but damn does it turn to crap after a while. This is with a system of only SSD’s, OC’ed i7 and 16gb of RAM.

Close to 10 moths of professional use with Microsoft's Surface Book, no slow downs, no reloading of the system. Only use Microsoft's own disk cleaner, equally I don't download endless junk to the drive or install unnecessary software. Two months with Huawei's MateBook X same, personally I believe is much related to the set up and usage as I've rarely incurred issue with Windows since W7/SP3.

My notebooks directly generate revenue, therefore personal like or dislikes aside best tool for the job always applies. I rarely spend anytime on maintenance of the system as for the most part none is required.

Q-6

 

[belvdr]

Maybe on super old hardware. Windows 10 seems to have a problem where it starts accumulating a bunch of junk over time and starts running pretty slowly. I’ve already reinstalled it twice in the past year, and I generally don’t install random junk and try to clean it up as much as possible. It’s fine when it’s new, but damn does it turn to crap after a while. This is with a system of only SSD’s, OC’ed i7 and 16gb of RAM.

I would agree with the above. I have a Win10 VM on my Mac in Parallels and two Win10 machines at home. One machine is a laptop from 2012 with upgraded SSDs (Dell XPS 15 - L521x). They've been running since Win10 was released and have not experienced any issue.

 

[BeforeTheMeds]

The problem with the Mini is that historically it was based on a MacBook motherboard, and the current laptop chips aren't that appropriate for desktop use anymore.

Exactly. Not to mention the base mini is based on the 2014 base macbook air and the air has been long updated.