Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition

Introduction

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You get a new Mac, and your initial impression is “Wow! So fast!” Everything seems so snappy compared to that old computer you were using before. Without even thinking about it, you find yourself opening more apps and documents than you ever could, and it all just works. Everything you do—playing games, running Photoshop filters, searching your massive email archive—seems to happen almost instantly. But as time passes, you begin to notice, every now and then, that something takes a bit longer than it used to. Gradually, those occasions become more frequent. Then you become aware of other strange behavior. Video that used to play smoothly now stutters. Webpages seem to take forever to load. Opening ...