Speeding Up Any Mac Using Only Common Sense Part 6 of 7

Top Tricks to Speed Up Your Mac #2

 

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Add RAM. The biggest problem (other than the above maintenance issue) is the lack of memory that is sold with your mac. Apple is famous for selling macs with bare bones minimum memory in their macs. Why? It keeps the selling price down. 

 

RAM is so cheap now especially for macs made in the last four years it would be insane to not install the maximum amount your model takes. This can make the difference from watching the beach ball turn and watching your finger nails grow to instant response time on most tasks.

RAM hungry applications are anything by Adobe (Photoshop is the ultimate winner!) and anything Microsoft. They install a lot what's called bloatware--junk you don’t need.

In the old days 128Mb RAM was a nice amount to run system 9. Today that won’t even boot OS X. If you’re running less than 1Gb of RAM you’re just torturing yourself and putting undo stress on your mac.

Upgrade that RAM. I can help with this too.