November 2019
Beginner
528 pages
13h 50m
English
Content preview from macOS Catalina For Dummies
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Chapter 27
Ten Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Experience
This chapter is for speed demons only. At some time in their Mac lives, most users have wished that their machines would work faster — even if their Macs have multiple cores or processors. I can’t help you make your processors any faster, but here’s where I cover some ways to make your Mac at least seem faster. Better still, at least some of these tips won’t cost you one red cent.
The ten tips that follow have been finely tuned over the course of this book’s many editions, often in response to suggestions by readers or editors. If you think you have a great way to speed up your Mac, please send it to me at Catalina4Dummies@boblevitus.com. If it’s awesome, I may include it in the next edition of this book (and give you full credit for thinking of it, of course)!
Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts (see Table 27-1 for a nice little list of the most useful ones) can make navigating your Mac a much faster experience compared with constantly using the mouse, offering these benefits:
- If you use keyboard shortcuts, your hands stay focused on the keyboard, reducing the amount of time that you remove your hand from the keyboard to fiddle with the mouse or trackpad.
- If you memorize keyboard shortcuts with your head, your fingers will memorize them, too.
- The more keyboard shortcuts you use, the faster you can do what you’re doing.
TABLE 27-1 Great Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcut |
Name |
What It Does |
⌘ +O |
Open ... |
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