Sunday, October 7, 2012

Simple Tips to restore Your Mac to its Youthful Snappiness

Mac wins against Windows and other counterparts in terms of stability and ease-of-use. It has a unique file system and a UNIX base, which make it highly secure and less prone to malware or virus attacks. As the Mac hardware and software are designed to run together, Mac users are able to squeeze the best performance from OS X. Despite being good for many reasons, many users complain that their machines are acting slow, beach balling, and more. There are a number of factors that can bog down your Mac, including network-related issues, boot drive getting filled up, too many programs running at once, and the like.

In order to make sure that your problem is not network-related, take your computer to a different network and run other machines on the same network. Further, verify your Internet connection speed and check for electronic interference in your area. If there are no issues with the network, then your computer is likely to be the root cause of the slowdown.

One of the primary considerations behind a slow Mac machine is the increasing number of files, documents, and other data on your boot drive. When your boot drive is almost full (i.e. more than 80% occupied), there is less virtual memory available for system processes. As a consequence, your Mac begins to slow down to a crawl. You need to keep your Mac hard drive below 50% filled. If you can manage to keep your data on the first 50% of the boot hard drive, the sectors and tracks on the second half of the drive will get shorter and the overall system performance gets a boost.

Your performance will also suffer if you have two or more programs running at once. You need to keep an eye on your Activity Monitor and examine the processes that are taking up maximum RAM and CPU. If you have too many memory-intensive processes running simultaneously, they will slow down your machine.

There are myriad Speed Up Mac tools on the market that can get your Mac running at peak performance. These utilities help you remove unwanted files, caches, logs, and system junks from your system. They allow easy removal of unwanted applications by just 'Drag and Drop' operation. Further, you can schedule speed up tasks to run at a specified time according to your requirement.   

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