No, the culprits are the extra data, applications, startup items, memory hogs, and lack of preventive maintenance that cause your Mac to feel bloated and bogged down. Treat your Mac like the elite system it is with these tuneup tips. It only takes a few minutes of your time to run through them, and they are all free. If you’re not using an application anymore, you can regain a few your Mac’s resources by eliminating the software’s associated startup item(s). An overloaded startup drive affects your Mac’s performance by robbing it of free space to store data; it also affects your Mac’s ability to defragment the drive automatically. A startup drive that is getting full can cause your Mac to boot up slowly, cause applications to launch slowly, increase the time it takes to save or open files, and prevent some applications from running at all. This feature results in the linked pages loading in your browser quickly. The problem occurs when the number of requests for linked pages overwhelms your network, your ISP’s network, or the DNS server that responds to the link queries. Under the right conditions, turning off DNS prefetching can speed up your browser. Widgets can be handy little apps, but they consume memory and CPU cycles even when you’re not actively using them. Delete any of them you don’t use. If your Mac runs on OS X 10.4 through macOS 10.14, you can reclaim memory by turning off the Dashboard layer that the MacOS uses for widgets in the Mission Control system preferences. Cookies, too, can lead to poor performance by Safari. You can manage those cookies pretty easily, though, so it’s worth tweaking a few of your settings. The Mac comes with an app that you can use to monitor how RAM is used, allowing you to gain some insight into memory utilization and whether your Mac would indeed benefit from more RAM. The Activity Monitor is simple to use, so give it a try.
