Necrothread!  Back from the dead to eat your brains!  *cough*

So I have an update.  I upgraded the RAM in my mini (it's pretty old and had 1gb ram) to 3gb and upgraded the HD from 80gb to 320gb (so I could put my iTunes music on there instead of on the seperate HD I had it on) and now it's instant.  Reactions to any button press is instantaneous.  Turning N.Music on is almost instantaneous (the disk spins up a lot faster, so I have music within 2 seconds of turning it on) and N.Radio is a lot faster, too.  I suspect that's helped because instead of using the wifi on the mini, which was hobbled by the old 802.11g, I have it wired to a Time Capsule which does 802.11n.  Changing from one station to another takes about 2 seconds where it use to take almost 10.

This is all with the disks still spinning down, which I've just shut off.

BTW, everything runs great.  The whole thing use to be slow when accessing movies, music, web (I use it for NFL Gamepass which use to be really slow and now it's just like any other website). I've upgraded a lot of computers before but I've never seen as much of a difference as this.  Well except when I put an SSD in my MBP. That was pretty awesome.  But that was $700.  This cost me $45 for RAM and $4 for a few spackle blades to open it with.  It's like having a brand new computer for $49.