How to Fix a Slow Mac

Q:"Hi guys, I have a MacBook pro that probably about 4 years old, and unfortunately everything lags. Any time I open an application, the computer pretty much freezes for a few seconds; Especially with major applications like iPhoto and iTunes. Is any idea to fix my slow Mac?"

-- A User from Yahoo Answers

It's a fact in our daily life: The Mac can run slowly for seemingly no reason. Many people are stuck on the situation that the old Mac is no longer as fast as before. If your Mac is running feels like a snail when you launch a new app or load a web page, read on the rest part to get the solutions.

Solution 1. Free Up Disk Space

To free up your disk space, delete unused files, old downloads and installer files ending in .dmg or .pkg. And movies, TV shows, music and images can also take up lots of room. You can move them to an external hard drive, and then delete the originals to free up more room. Remember to empty the trash after deleting the items.

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Solution 2. Free Up More RAM

This solution will help you free up more Random Access Memory.

Step 1. Click on your hard drive icon > Applications > Click the Utility folder > Terminal. And also click System Memory in Activity Monitor to check out the memory usage condition.

Step 2. In Terminal, type "purge" and press enter.

Step 3. Wait for few seconds, and you will see the green piece of the pie chart increase in size on the Activity Monitor window. This can quickly release programs from memory that slows your Mac down.

Note: The junk files stored in your Mac can also slow down your computer and take up your precious but limited space. Even though the Mac requires less maintenance, you'd better do some cleaning job regularly thus to speed up your slow Mac. MacClean is the way to go.

- It is specially made to speed up and free up your Mac by removing kinds of junks like Internet junk, user junk, system junk, and application junk.

- It works well on every Mac computer, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro.

- It allows you to remove the junk files to trash or completely remove from your Mac.

- It lets you preview the junk files before removing them, and you can choose the selected items to remove from your Mac.

Solution 3. How to Speed up a Slow Mac with MacClean

Step 1. Simply download and install MacClean on your computer, open up it.

Step 2. On the welcome page, you will see six types of junk files MacClean supported. Toggle the switch for selected junk you want to scan to the "On" position, and then click on the Start Scan button.

Step 3. The scanning time depends on how much junk stored on your Mac. After the scan finished, you can preview the junk and select the items you want to remove, and then click the Clean Now button to remove them.

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The Bottom Line

Removing the junk files from Mac is an efficient and quick solution to fix a slow Mac. Why not download MacClean to take a tour now? Any question on this guide or MacClean is warmly welcomed. At the same time, don't forget to share this guide with your friends.