Here’s how to speed up a Mac by turning off some visual effects: Click System Preferences > Dock. Untick the following boxes: Animate opening applications, Automatically hide and show the Dock. Click on Minimize windows using and change Genie effect to Scale effect.
Why is my MacBook so slow?
Solutions: Firstly, find the large media files on your Mac, delete the unused videos, apps, photos, etc.
Solution: Open up Terminal: ~/Applications/Utilities. Enter the command: Purge, and tap the enter tab. Give your Mac a minute or two to complete the process.
Solution: Kill the unneeded login items. Open up System Preferences, and click the Users&Groups.
How to speed up Mac?
Clean up system files and documents. A clean Mac is a fast Mac.
Detect&Kill Demanding Processes. If things are slower than usual or if your Mac gets hot for no reason,an out-of-control process could be slowing things down.
Speed up startup time: Manage startup programs. Does it take ages for your Mac to boot up and get going?
Remove unused apps. Let me share one of my habits with you: Once a month,I go through all the programs installed on my Mac and make sure there
Run a macOS system update. In the past,new macOS releases used to slow down older Macs. Those days are over.
Upgrade your RAM. If all of the above didn’t help,and if things are still slow,then your hardware might be the limiting factor.
Swap your HDD for an SSD. Want to see an even bigger jump in performance? How about upgrading from an old-school mechanical hard disk to a blazing-fast SSD?
Reduce Visual Effects. macOS comes with some eye candy that doesn’t just impact the performance of older MacBooks or iMacs,but it may even cause motion sickness if you’re
Reset PRAM and SMC regularly. I have solved more problems than I can count by resetting the SMC and the PRAM on my Mac. Weird overheating issues?
