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Monday, October 8, 2012

Increase Mac speed | What to do for increasing my Mac Speed

How to improve Mac speed? Easy and cheap tips to increase Mac speed are some basic queries being asked by users of Mac having a sluggish machine. This idle behaviour of Mac machine can cause a great loss to a business. Here we are discussing causes and cures for sleeping nature of Mac.
It is always recommended to optimize the Mac to maintain its performance. Optimizing simply means taking care of actual resources available for processes. Freeing the resources from unnecessary accumulations on drive, is also a task of optimization.

Adding RAM is the best to way to avail resources for Mac programs but it may be an expensive option because the cost of memory devices has raised in last few months. So, it is recommended to opt for an alternate solution ie; maintaining free space in Mac drive.

 

How to maintain free space on Mac startup disk


While it needs Virtual Memory (VM), the OS X makes use of free disk space on your startup disk, also known as boot volume. If there is no or little amount of free space on startup disk, you will find a considerable fall in performance speed.

The Mac disk cleaning tools can a great rescue for getting out of this headache causing situation.
The list of Mac speeding tips includes following clues.
  • Make your little simple by minimizing the items
    1. Open System Preferences > Dock.
    2. Select Scale Effect in the Minimize Using field.
    3. Deselect the Animate Opening Applications option.
  • Avoid the unnecessary animated desktop since it snatches resources from other processes and delays their performance.
  • Keep an eye on activity monitor, launched with Mac OS X Tiger, to see the amount of resources being used by running applications. Activity Monitor is located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
  • Its a good idea to reclaim resources by closing nonessential widgets. To close a widget:
    1. Open Dashboard.
    2. Press and hold the Option key.
    3. Move the mouse pointer over a widget you wish to close. The widget's Close button (X) appears in the upper-left corner of the widget.
    4. Click the widget's Close button.
    5. Repeat steps 3-4 for other widgets you wish to close.

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