“When your Mac slows down, productivity suffers,” Fairer Platform writes.
“Here are five easy ways, and a few of their friends, to speed up your Mac,” Fairer Platform writes. “All are free and will take very little time to implement.”
If, after performing the five steps, your Mac is “still not fast enough? Far and away the most effective way to speed up your Mac is more RAM — perhaps you do not have enough.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Link worked for me.
Yes, and to save on your electric bill, turn off the extra lights. 😎
… and close you eyes before you go to sleep!
I sped up my five-year old Mac in one easy step: I replaced it with a new Mac mini! 🙂
——RM
meh
I recently added 32GB RAM to my iMac and it helped a lot. 8GB wasn’t enough.
Not enough RAM could shorten the life of your HDD.
My original 30 MB hard drive for my Mac Plus is still working. Bought it in 1986. Used it for years at 12 to 14 hours a day.
Speeding up you Mac can be a worthwhile quest. However, barring defects or abuse of your equipment, your parts will long outlast their useful life.
Wow! 32 GB! I wonder if 16 would have sufficed?
Mmm, Lord Robin, I wonder if I could use my mid 2007 iMac as a monitor for a Mac mini? Want a new Mac. Don’t want to spend a lot dough on it.
Clean up your desktop??
What? Really? Oh you mean on my 1990’s Mac running system 7.
Maybe I should rename all my files to shorter names, too…
Indeed. What a huey article…
Use a solid background as a desktop wallpaper as well.
Yup these tips were helpful 15 years ago.
An article teaching you how to use Activity Monitor, Disk Utility and OnyX would be much more useful.
OnyX does kick ass.
Yeah, why don’t we go back to managing RAM on a per-app basis?
If you need to disable Dashboard, you have bigger problems.
As the article states, “More RAM is always better”.
…but unfortunately, my 2012 Mac Pro needs a Firmware Update from Apple in order for it to use 32GB DIMMs so as to push it up to OS X’s limits (presently 96GB, going to 128GB under 10.9).
…but given the sad state of Apple’s support for the Mac Pro, I entirely expect that all of their attention will be on the Tube and that yesterday’s customers will get ‘abandoned’ – – despite Apple’s 5 year lifecycle support policy.
-hh