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so the other day i came back from work, booted my mini (a 4 months old machine);
got this image for like 45min:
then i got the iclock
the machine hasn't anything installed apart from Adium and the Apple updates.

a call to the customer service later, they tell me to format and reinstall (no problem, my last format and install problem was less than 2 months old, didn't have anything on it)
and well i reinstalled MacOS:
1/ it's fucking slow, it's behaving like my former PIII500 with XP.
2/ it can connect to any wireless network.

so far my experience with it has been between plain horrible and "oh god, why didn't i bought a Shuttle PC?"
i feel robbed and i want to hulk smash the apple customer support

Any idea about what could cause to behave like this?

EDIT: images linked

Anything could've gone wrong - you just be unlucky and had an early hardware failure. You might need to sent it in for repair or replacement.

EDIT: Also, please de-inline those huge images.

Yeah, I would ask Apple to fix it; sounds like there's a hardware failure.

At the very least, your unit is under warranty, so you should definitely send it in for repair. You could probably take it by an Apple store and hand it to one of the goths, err, employees, for immediate diagnosis and troubleshooting.

I actually rather like the Mac Mini hardware, and with Leopard installed, its actually fairly decent. If you are unwilling to shell out cash for the Leopard upgrade, I'd reccommend the use of Linux over Tiger, unless you need an OS X specific application (and IMO a lot of MacOS applications are really really bad in every respect except UI).

If you've reinstalled, and you're still getting nothing on the wireless network, the airport card is probably fucked. It might be screwing the whole system up, depending on how much of a stink it's driver is causing behind the scenes.

Definitely a hardware problem; that's probably been causing all the little troubles you've been having all along. Call Apple, tell them you've formatted twice, tell them everything, express your stress and frustration, and they'll repair/replace it.