Review: Speed up Mac Platinum Edition Software

This 4th of July, I got a lifetime activation code for the newly launched software called Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition through a popular giveaway website. On receiving this, I was equally delighted and curios to run it on my Mac Mini hard drive. In short, I am going to review this software package and let you know if this tool is worth for Mac OS X.

Background of the Platinum Edition:

The software Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition is an extended version of already existing clean up Mac application called Stellar Speedup Mac. While the Stellar Speedup Mac is dedicated Mac cleaner utilities that have Uninstaller, its Platinum Edition has 7 more software to offer including Speedup Mac & Uninstaller apps. But the real deal is, how beneficial is Platinum edition?

Tech Specification of the Speedup Mac Platinum Edition

• Processor: Intel
• RAM: 1 Gigabyte
• Free Space: 50 MB
• OS X: 10.6 and up to 10.10
• DMG Size: 38.9 MB

How Platinum Edition is useful to your Mac?

Its 9 utilities perform below operation on Mac OS X:

1. Clean up Mac drive
2. Removes unwanted apps and software
3. Defrag Mac hard disk drives
4. Path Finder for removing large & duplicate files
5. Repairs corrupt Mac disk
6. Secure Wipe Mac
7. Monitor Mac hard drive condition
8. Compare Mac performance with other Macs
9. Schedule multiple tasks

Let’s get insight of this Clean up Mac application and find out how and when this tool can help

Speedup Mac

One can use the speed up Mac feature of Platinum edition when Mac becomes slow or looses it performance. Now, one has to understand that Speed up Mac utilities only clean up the garbage data from your Mac OS X. If your Mac is running out of space then this app is recommended. But if your HDD is full of free spaces still running slow then user must check other factors like RAM, HDD failure etc. Anyhow, coming back to this module of Platinum edition, it gives you opportunity to clean up all junk files from every corner of the Mac hard drive.

Speed up Mac module pulls out crap data from Logs, Caches, System Junks, Trashes, Binaries, Large files and Duplicate files. So, if your Mac is cluttered with these junk data then Speedup Mac can prove to extremely helpful. It can clean up to many GBs of data if your Mac hard drive hasn’t been cleaned from long time.

Caution: Files once cleaned couldn’t be restored back. So be cautious.

Uninstaller

Clean up Mac drive operation can be extended to further level by using Uninstaller to get rid of useless/unwanted apps, plugins and widgets from Mac OS X.

Uninstaller is useful as it can completely remove a stubborn application or those apps, which can’t be uninstalled using drag-drop on to the trash.

Defrag Drive

Ever thought of defragging a Mac? Actually there is no built in app in Mac to defrag Mac OS X. Moreover, you might not need to defrag a Mac. I recommend defragging a Mac only when your Mac HDD is read/write numerous times or Mac is being operated for the heavy video editor software. With Platinum Edition<<Defrag software you can defrag Mac startup drive, external disk drives and manage all stored files on contiguous memory locations.

Platinum edition offers 4 algorithms to defrag and optimize any Apple oriented hard disk drives. Alongside, it also monitors the temperature of the drive and stops the process when temperature exceed threshold limit.

Caution: SSD drives don’t need defragmentation.

Finder

Unlike the above 3 apps, Finder is considerable little but useful at times kind of app. If your hard drive is cluttered with large, unused and duplicate files then Finder can let you know the exact location of these files. Once user gets to know their location, he can remove or reveal them using Finder.

The Finder app is helpful when your iTunes, iPhoto, iMovies, iWork, Aperture library accumulate over dozens of duplicate data. Though its tiny it might be prove it by flushing out unused files and saving good amount of spaces for your Mac.

Volume Optimizer

The app name sounds typical but it is Mac disk drive repair software, which rebuilds the corrupt directory structure of Mac internal and external hard drives. It won’t be wrong to say that Optimizer is the most professional application of Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition. If your Mac hard drive is attacked by Invalid B tree node problem and likewise then this module can repair the hard drive in more than couple of clicks.

Apart from repairing damaged Mac drive, this software allows repairing bad permissions on Mac startup drive. If Disk Utility repair disk permission results aren’t satisfactory then try repairing the Mac permissions with Optimizer.

Wiping Mac

If you have decided to sell of an old Mac then Wipe module of the Platinum software is helpful in terms of Secure Erasing the OS X and files beyond the scope of recovery. By giving it a closer look, you will realize that Disk Utility uses Zeroes, 3 Passes and 7 Passes to secure wipe Mac. On the other hand, Wipe application includes 3, 7, 35 Passes and various other data wiping algorithms.

User can wipe the Macintosh HD with this utility since it gives you an option to make bootable media with which OS X startup drive can be wiped. Other than Mac’s internal disk drives, it can easily secure wipe attachable media such as USB, SD Cards etc.

Drive Monitor

This application of Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition can let you know the disk drive health status. User can check connected Drive/Volume’ SMART status. It further monitors drives temperature and overall status of the Apple HFS hard drives.

Drive Monitor<<Surface Scan helps determine the bad sectors on the Macintosh HD and mounted partitions. If your drives have developed bad sectors then you can take full back up of its data using software Backup feature.

Benchmark

Benchmark module compares your Mac system performance with the stored performances of other Mac systems. It denotes the system performance in terms of Bar Graph, Line Graph and Raw data.

Smart Care

If user wants to run multiple tasks of Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition on definite times, then Smart Mac Care is the option to go. Once customized, this module Speedup, Wipes, Repair and Monitors Mac disks.

Ratings:

• Interface: 4/5
• Performance: 4/5
• Price: 4.5/5
• Ease of Use: 4/5

Summary:

If you want bunch of Mac optimization utilities at the price of two utilities then go for Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition. Among the 9 apps of this edition, Speedup, Uninstaller, Defrag, Wipe, Optimizer and Drive Monitor are literally the ‘performers’.