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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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Lighten Your CPU Load

As I discussed in CPU Power, your CPU is responsible for doing all the actual computations involved in making your Mac run. As a result, when your CPU is being pushed close to its limit, your Mac will slow down, and the way to speed it back up is to reduce some of the demands on your CPU so it can devote its power to the activities that are most important to you.

In this chapter I focus on steps you can take to reduce excess CPU usage. Because any process that uses CPU power also uses some RAM and, in most cases, accesses your disk, stopping or throttling that process can improve all three aspects of your Mac’s performance. The items I discuss in this chapter are those for which, in my judgment, the improvements to CPU ...

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