macOS Ventura For Dummies

Chapter 24

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 Mac's 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.

Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts (see Table 24-1 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.

Using the keyboard shortcuts for commands you use often will save you a ton of effort and hours upon hours of time.

Make a list of keyboard shortcuts you want to memorize, and tape it to your monitor until your brain and fingers memorize them. Or photograph and print Table 24-1 and tape it to your monitor! Learn ’em once, and you’ll save time with them forever!

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