How to make Your Mac Faster?

Now get your speed back like a new Mac with a few tweaks to your system. Check out the solutions below to optimize your Mac and say goodbye to the frustration and productivity lags that come with slow Macs.

How to make your Mac faster?

Disable visual effects

I know that visual effects are the essence of Mac and they are extremely beautiful. But what good are aesthetic effects if the machine is running slowly? Disabling visual effects on MacBook or iMac has been shown to speed it up. Here you will know how you can do it:

1. Go to ” System Preferences » and select » Dock “.
2. Then uncheck the following boxes: Automatically hide and show Dock and Animate opening apps.
3. Also click on the » Minimize windows using » and select » scale effect in the drop-down options.

Say Goodbye to unused apps

We’ve all been there, installing tons of apps and never using them after one or two uses. Well, if your Mac is running slow now, it’s time to say goodbye to those unused apps. When I say “Say goodbye” I don’t just mean dragging them in the trash, little or nothing. Putting apps in dumpsters leaves behind GBs of trash; therefore, the apps should be uninstalled properly.

For a quick cleanup and uninstall of your MacBook or iMac, CleanMyMac X can also be used.

Terminate resource-intensive processes

Some applications are more demanding than others. These apps consume more power and system resources to run, which slows down your iMac. It is better to kill these apps if they are not in use. Now the next question that comes to your mind should be “how do I know what is slowing down my Mac?” You can find resource-intensive apps in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder.

In the details of Activity Monitor, focus on the apps that are putting a strain on your CPU. Close apps that are consuming more CPU percentage by clicking the X button on the left side of the processes.

Clean RAM with CleanMyMac X

You have little time? Or don’t feel like cleaning your MacBook manually? No worries! You can clean your Mac’s junk files via CleanMyMac X in no time. You don’t need to spend hours tweaking settings and apps to improve your iMac, let CleanMyMac X do the work for you. This tool has a special feature called “Speed” designed to optimize slow Macs.

The speed feature takes the following steps to prevent your Mac from crawling:

• Disables additional login items.
• It disables all blocked apps on your machine.
• Disable processes that consume a lot of memory and resources
• To optimize the speed of your Mac, run macOS maintenance scripts.

Organize Your desk

As convenient as putting all your files on your desktop, it comes at a price. You may not know this, but “all desktop icons consume RAM”. So the more apps and files on your desktop, the slower your Mac will be.

Take some time and move all unnecessary files from your desktop. You’ll be amazed at how much of a difference this desktop clutter makes in terms of speed. Be sure to restart your Mac after cleaning the desktop and request them for your convenience.

It’s time to clean up the hard drive

Often Mac users start complaining in frustration, “but how do I speed up my Mac pro?” after using it for years. But, they don’t know that they have a bunch of junk files in their hard drive which ultimately slows down the performance of the machine.

So, check your drive and look for all unnecessary junk files and very large files that could be causing the problem. But wait, what to look for? All! Including caches, logs, widgets, hidden files in trash, old data and apps. Creating extra space for your machine to breathe will boost it easily.

Keep your Mac up to date

It’s obvious, keeping your software and hardware up to date not only gives you access to new features, but also helps optimize your Mac, so if you’ve been putting off updates for a really long time, that’s probably the time to do it.

You can check your software version by clicking the Apple logo in the upper left corner of the screen, then going to “About This Mac”. Make sure your Mac is updated to the latest version available, if not, update it immediately.

Do you want to know what is the best solution to make Mac run faster? Invest in additional RAM. To do this, first check the existing RAM installed on your machine if you don’t already know it.

1. Click on the Apple logo in the left corner.
2. Then navigate to the About This Mac section.
3. Find RAM specs here.

If your Mac has less than 8 GB of RAM, you should surely upgrade it! You’ll get an extra 8GB RAM card for around $30-$35, but it’s worth every penny.

Clean RAM with Terminal

Don’t want to spend on RAM just yet? No problem! You can try another option to clean up your RAM using the terminal.

1. Open the Terminal app through Launchpad.
2. Then type the following command in the terminal “sudo purge”.
3. press enter
4. Now the terminal will ask you to type the system password. Type that and your RAM will start cleaning itself.

However, if you don’t feel comfortable freeing up RAM yourself through the terminal, we have a shortcut for you.

Conclusion

It’s normal for a Mac to slow down after years, and the reasons are endless. However, we have mentioned the best possible solutions to make your Mac run faster which will help you immediately. If you have downloaded CleanMyMac X software, be sure to run it from time to time to optimize your computer.

Let us know if you have any proven tips or tricks for optimizing Mac by letting us know in the comments section below.