Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition

Speed Up Mouse and Keyboard Input

People have written to tell me their Mac is too slow, and on further investigation I discovered that what they really meant was that their mouse pointer was too slow—an easily solvable problem, if you know what to do. This is just one of several cases where benchmarking and timed tests don’t tell the whole story, because so many factors figure into one’s subjective perception of speed.

In this brief chapter I tell you what to do if your pointer seems slow; I also cover how to make your Mac seem faster by using a variety of utilities to get more done with less mousing and fewer keystrokes.

Speed Up Your Pointer

You may have noticed that the average mouse pad is a lot smaller than the average display. Likewise, ...