How to make your Slow Running Mac faster?!!

A Mac OS that runs your Mac book, Imac, Mac Mini, and even your Iphone, is a great operating system. Mac OS X is superior to other operating systems because of its reliability, speed and security. But over the time, many Mac users start complaining about their Macbook running slow, long response time, delay and so on. There are some common factors that affect the speed of your system. Here, I have explained some of the important ones that actually affect the speed of the Mac book.

First, let’s check out your hard drive. If you see your hard drive with space less than 50%, then maybe it’s the time for some clean up. Browse all of your data and figure out the files you might not need anymore that are eating the space up. Files like movies, Music videos etc, with high space. Delete the ones you will no longer need and free as much space as possible. Program files to eat much space. So if there are programs installed that are no more in use, you should delete them too.

Sending files to trash box doesn’t mean that data is completely removed. It still remains on the hard disk occupying the same space. So it is important that you completely remove them all. Here is how to do this. Go to trash, select all the files there and delete them. Empty the trash completely.

Many Macs only have 512mb to 1 GB of ram and no dedicated video memory as well. This will cause your Macbook running slow down. So check out how many programs you are running at once. If this is the case, then your computer can only handle few programs at once. You will definitely notice a huge improvement in the performance while using only a few programs at one time.

Many people use alternate browsers like Safari instead of Mozilla Firefox. If you are using a slower browser itself, obviously your Mac will run slower. Firefox is by far the fastest and most secure browser and it is an open source. Which means any one can use it for free. Every month, you are paying for all that bandwidth, why not use it all?

Everything depends too much on the capacity of you Mac book. If your ram is too low, consider upgrading it if you have the option to upgrade. If you are putting too much workload on it, then it is your Macbook running slow down. It will start showing the symptoms. The disk clean up may work for you, but if everything is fine and still you are facing the problems, then you might consider changing the hard disk.

Users with better rams and faster hard drive have given very positive feedbacks. 2GB will be the best option if you are flexible enough to bear some cost. But a 1GB will also do the work for you. Faster hard drives will definitely help; 7200 rpm sata for example.

It is very important that you understand what’s causing your Macbook running slow. Try out the above mentioned options first. Possibly they will work out for you. If you are standing on a low configuration like 512MB ram, then it’s the time for upgrade, though it will make your wallet lose some weight.