Turn any Mac Into a speed demon with our tips. Whatever Mac you have, you sometimes have to spend a little time and TLC on it just to keep it working smoothly. Here, then, are our top tips to speed up any Mac!
1.THANKS FOR THE MEMORY
Adding more RAM will almost always have a positive impact on your Mac’s performance. Check your system’s performance with Activity Monitor and run Crucial’s System Scanner to get the exact spec and price of the extra RAM.
2.UPGRADE TO SSD
If you have an old MacBook or MacBook Pro with a user- replaceable hard disk, consider replacing it with an SSD in order to speed up data seek times. Following our advice on alternative operating systems, you could combine that with a nice, lean Linux distro and have a laptop that’s good for a few more years!
3.HARD DISK SPACE
Keep your Mac running as efficiently as possible by freeing up hard disk space: archive any photos you don’t need to a NAS drive, or move your music onto an iTunes home server by following our advice earlier in this article. Use File > Get Info on your hard disk, and check h-ow much free space it has: aim for at least 10 to 15 percent.
4 EASY ON THE GRAPHICS
If you’re running OS X on a Mac with less than stellar graphics performance, you can speed it up by going to System Preferences > Dock, and removing the tick from the checkboxes next to:
• Magnification
• Animate opening applications
• Automatically hide and show the dock
• Turn off accessibility
7.DISABLE DASHBOARD
When was the last time you used Dashboard? Thought so. Speed up your Mac by turningi it off: launch Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool YES killall Dock
and hit Return. Want the Dashboard back? Type: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool NO killall Dock and hit Return again.
8.SORT OUT YOUR MAIL
Mail feeling sluggish in OS X? Quit Mail and. In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder…. Type in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData and hit Go. Drag all files with names beginning Envelope Index to the Trash. Next time you launch Mail, it’ll rebuild its database. You can safely delete the old Envelope Index files the next time you log on.
9.SLOW SURFING SAFARI
Is Safari slowing down? Taking forever loading some sites? If you find yourself tapping the desk anxiously waiting for pages to load, trying resetting Safari: go to Safari > Reset Safari…, then choose which data to remove and click Reset. You might lose a few website settings, but you gain a whizzy new browser.
10 RESTART YOUR MAC
If your Mac is getting slower and slower since you started it up. rebooting it will often clear whatever’s causing it. Besides, although Macs in theory can stay on—or asleep—forever, in practice it’s usually a good idea to restart it every now and then.
5.LAUNCH
Does your Mac spend a good few minutes whenever you turn it on simply opening up items that are set to launch on login? Online storage apps such as Dropbox and Google Drive are particular culprits. Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups and then click Login Items. Remove anything you don’t need from the list by clicking it. then the minus button under the list.
6.DOCK ANIMATIONS
If you want, you can turn off Dock animation completely, so it pops up without any fuss. Launch Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0; killall Dock
and hit Return. To get the effect back, type: defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier; killall Dock and hit Return.
7.DISABLE DASHBOARD
When was the last time you used Dashboard? Thought so. Speed up your Mac by turningi it off: launch Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool YES killall Dock
and hit Return. Want the Dashboard back? Type: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool NO killall Dock and hit Return again.
8.SORT OUT YOUR MAIL
Mail feeling sluggish in OS X? Quit Mail and. In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder…. Type in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData and hit Go. Drag all files with names beginning Envelope Index to the Trash. Next time you launch Mail, it’ll rebuild its database. You can safely delete the old Envelope Index files the next time you log on.
9.SLOW SURFING SAFARI
Is Safari slowing down? Taking forever loading some sites? If you find yourself tapping the desk anxiously waiting for pages to load, trying resetting Safari: go to Safari > Reset Safari…, then choose which data to remove and click Reset. You might lose a few website settings, but you gain a whizzy new browser.
10.RESTART YOUR MAC
If your Mac is getting slower and slower since you started it up. rebooting it will often clear whatever’s causing it. Besides, although Macs in theory can stay on—or asleep—forever, in practice it’s usually a good idea to restart it every now and then.
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