Speeding Up Any Mac Using Only Common Sense Part 2 of 7

Top Tricks to Speed Up Your Mac: #6

Get a Larger Hard Drive. When your hard drive reaches 90% capacity you’ll notice a slow down in performance on all levels. The operating system uses hard drive space for a good number of temp files. Many applications require hard drive space to do their thing. If you don’t want to upgrade the internal drive at least consider an external hard drive. Once attached, you can off-load files you don’t use often, especially images like your digital camera pics.

Many older macs, especially the iBooks, Powerbooks and even the MacBook Pros came with really skimpy hard drives for capacity! Installing a new hard drive in one of these requires professional skills, so contact me before you make a choice. I can do the switch.