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Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition
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Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition

by Joe Kissell
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
205 pages
4h 33m
English
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Learn What Makes a Mac Fast (or Slow)

In this chapter I set the record straight about what does and does not influence your Mac’s speed. Unfortunately, slowdowns are often treated as a sort of voodoo topic, where users are urged to simply Perform the Magical Procedure but with no explanation of what it really does or why it should work. There are a lot of myths floating around; most of them do have an element of truth to them, but that truth is often more constrained or specific than you may have been led to believe. Hence this overview of the positive factors involved, followed by a rogues’ gallery of purported fixes for slow Macs that usually do little good, if any.

The Three Most Important Determiners of Mac Performance

As you’ll see throughout ...

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