MAC MINI VERY SLOW TO WAKE FROM SLEEP UPDATE
MAC MINI VERY SLOW TO WAKE FROM SLEEP DRIVER

I could buy a cheap hi-fi system but then it wouldn't be connected to my iTunes library.

This isn't a huge difficulty but the sound quality isn't great and I don't like using my laptop in my bedroom (mainly because I try to keep some separation between work / computer based activities from other things I enjoy like reading and writing - the ideal separation is a physical one so I don't use my computer in my bedroom at all). If I want to listen to music in my bedroom, then I have to bring my laptop in and listen to it from there. With the initial problem left alone for now, I decided to think on another problem I have. Several sources are touting that iTunes 8 is going to be released and will have an option to stream your music wirelessly to other machines (or an iPhone) through the internet. However, since I started writing this article there have been rumours flying around about the 9th September 'Lets Rock' event being staged by Apple. I have since completely given up on this idea as I needed to a) access music on my laptop all the time and b) access music on my work iMac without having to leave everything on at home and broadcast through a static IP (which would also have been a little slow especially when I skip through lots of tracks - I'm very picky at what I listen to). That way if I added music to the mac mini, the others would all be in sync. My original plan was to have the mac mini hold everything and then the other computers would use it's hard drive over my network as the master copy.

MAC MINI VERY SLOW TO WAKE FROM SLEEP UPDATE

The problem I have is that at present I have 3 computers at home and 1 at work (plus my iPhone 3G) which all have a complete copy of all of my music files (around 20GB - obviously the iPhone doesn't have all of that as it doesn't fit but that's a separate issue) - the downside to this is that when I update one machine the others are then out of sync.

MAC MINI VERY SLOW TO WAKE FROM SLEEP DRIVER

The main driver for this was a forgotten Mac Mini (512MB of RAM and an old G4 processor) which I realised could hold all of my music on its 40GB hard drive and send it wirelessly to all of my other equipment.

I was recently cleaning through the 'technology cupboard' in my flat (every geek has one - it's a place where all the useless electronics we've collected over the years live) when I came across an idea for creating a home entertainment system for my bedroom.

Mac mini very slow to wake from sleep