How to Speed Up Mac Mini 2012 OS X El Capitan 10.11.4

This is year 2016 and you might feel that your Mac Mini 2012 is now old to run a powerful OS X version El Capitan 10.11.4? Actually, Mac Mini is a great desktop computer from Apple and it has always been a top Mac system. Indeed an old Mac Mini requires few hardware upgrades to speed up its performance. The best part of this model is that it can be configured with any other standard peripherals. On the contrary, the low RAM and processing speed of Mac mini pull down its performance.

As per Apple, the Mac Mini doesn’t waste energy. In an idle state, your Mac mini consumes lesser than 13 watts. And the aluminum body of Mac Mini is highly recyclable. 

The technical specifications for 2.3GHz Mac mini are given below

Processor: 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 with 3MB on-chip shared L3 cache

Memory: 4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory

With the passage of time it goes decreasing the performance of Mac mini. The reasons of slow Mac mini could include the following:

1. Low memory than required for applications
2. Low disk space
3. Running multiple heavy applications simultaneously
4. Drive defragmentations
5. Other hardware issues

Tips to speed up Mac Mini

Tip 1: Upgrade memory by adding additional sticks of DDR2 RAM (DDR3 for new models) module.

Tip 2: Clean up Mac drive with the help of a Mac drive cleaner utility. Delete duplicate files (iTunes, iMovies, iWork), remove unimportant applications, useless log files, caches and other unnecessary language files to free some hard drive spaces. Freeing up space on your hard drive can improve the speed and performance of your Mac Mini.

Tip 3: Defragmenting Mac could help you to speed up Mac Mini. It synchronises the files stored in your drive and rearranges the fragments of all files so as to minimize the access time of these files.

Tip 4: Empty the trash of your Mac Mini. Large files in your trash still takes up room on your hard drive and can adversely affect your computer's speed.

Tip 5: Keep an eye on applications that consumes unnecessary RAM through Activity Monitor in the "Utilities" section of your Mac. Aborting unnecessary applications could save you a lot of valuable resources.

Tip 6: Repair Mac hard disk drive permissions through Disk Utility in the "Utilities" folder.

Tip 7: Install Mac Drive Defrag utility and check the number of fragmented files with the help of demo version of the software. If too many fragments are present on the hard drive then defrag it using registered version of the software.

Tip 8:  Replace HDD with SSD and experience thunderbolt performance of Mac.

The above tips could help you speed up slow Mac mini. For more details visit: Fix Slow Mac.