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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
Take Control Books
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Diagnose Common Speed Problems

Saying “My Mac is slow” is like going to the doctor and saying, “I feel yucky.” You won’t get anywhere with a cure—or even a diagnosis—unless you can be much more specific. In this chapter I help you to figure out exactly which aspects of your Mac are too slow (so I can direct you to appropriate fixes) and to actually measure how slow (so we can measure again afterward and determine how effective the fixes were).

We’ll work from general to specific. First, I explain the basic diagnostic principles you’ll use throughout the remainder of the book. Next, I show you how to benchmark your Mac’s raw performance so that you have a baseline against which to compare future results—something you should do regardless of what ...

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