[phazmatis]

In mavericks, I could hit command-space and start typing, and knew that even though the spotlight box hadn't popped up yet, my text was being captured. Now in yosemite, it's more like... hit command-space, start typing "chrome", wind up with a box 1.5 seconds later filled in with "ome". This is only a problem on my i5 mac mini. My macbook pro (same year - late 2012) is just barely fast enough to pop open the window in time to capture my text input. But that just shows that their UI stack is too deep to provide the kind of snappy user interactions they are shooting for.

[DigitalJack]

Maybe there is something odd about the mac mini that causes this; my 2009 mac book pro with mavericks has no problem with it. I tried, but couldn't hit a character fast enough to cause a miss.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out there was something hardware related with the mini that leads to this.