Speeding up 13" Macbook Pro for free

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We all know that installing 4GB of RAM will speed up a Macbook and make the whole experience a little smoother and faster - but what can you do now for FREE to help expedite your package of joy and thus keep the user more happy? I'll tell you six things that will help.

Macbooks are cool, they are nice and very hip. While they paddled often less than PCs. Yes, perhaps, but what we can be certain is that this is not a reason to do anything and do anything to clean up after itself. So if your Mac oar in sauerkraut, here are 11 tips to help improve the situation and raise the slope.

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1. Free space
   
   
   
   • We can never say enough. A hard drive, whatever, must always have a little free space. Just for him breathe. And Mac is especially true that Mac OS X requires at least 20% of space on the boot disk to write to its virtual memory and temporary files. Basically, when the disc is shielded, Mac Os pedal in the semolina and prevents you from doing your job. So it's simple, if you have much room, you just need to invest in a small external hard drive via USB or FireWire.
     
     
   • And if you can not afford because you already ruined your Mac to buy, then do the household. Store 150,000 photos of the baptism of the youngest is not necessarily useful. At worst, you can still burn, huh ...
   
   
   
2. Manage running applications at startup
   
   
   
   • Like what PCs and Macs have more in common than you might think ... Some of the programs you install will launch cowardly to boot and tend to slow down. So, it is always best to tidy up a little history to optimize the resources of their Mac. All you have to do is go into system preferences, you go to the Accounts, select yours and click on the tab "Open". Programs that you are not useful, just transfer them by selecting them and clicking the little "-" just below.
   
   
   
3. Transfer services that are not
   
   
   
   • By default, Mac OS launches full of service to boot. Some are useful, others a little less and everything ultimately depends on the use you make of your machine. What is certain is that if you do not use bluetooth, universal access and speech recognition, it does no good to let them live their lives. So if you do not need, disable them to save some resources.
   
   
   
4. Close unnecessary applications
   
   
   
   • Again, this is a trick to know, but when you click the little X in a window, it really does not close the software. So, it continues to run in the background, puffing all your precious little resources. When you want to quit a program, you no longer need, so make a "CMD + Q". This command only takes a few seconds and you will avoid a lot of trouble.
   
   
   
5. Do not install anything
   
   
   
   • And that's also true for a PC, eh ... Often, users tend to install lots of software for testing. Yes, but then they forget to uninstall. And it does not really forgive, because after a while the temporary files are stored on your machine you eventually drove him nuts. Also, when you no longer need a software, always remember to turn using a dedicated tool like the excellent AppCleaner (totally free as well).
   
   
   
6. Bring the system up to date
   
   
   
   • Nobody is perfect. In any case, Microsoft is not and Apple either. Sometimes their software contain some bugs. Also, keep its system up to date is essential. If your Mac has, very kindly, to its OS to date, do it. And it applies to all your applications. You will gain in both performance and stability and as it costs you nothing, as not deprive yourself.
   
   
   
7. Take care of your hard drive
   
   
   
   • It does not say enough but a hard drive is fragile. Then he was blind, again and again, until finally it will slow to grow. And there's almost too late because everyone does not necessarily mastering the tools of data recovery. Morality, take care of your hard disk! Especially since a dedicated utility comes with Leopard and it just go to Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility to check the little beast, repair or handle disk permissions.
   
   

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• Remove what does not serve
  
  
  
  • At the time, you bought your MacBook because you are looking for a portable solution for your travel. Six months later, you have so many devices plugged it never leaves your office. No luck, all these devices consume resources. So when you do not need your printer, scanner, graphic tablet, the keyboard, mouse or anything else, remove them.
  
  
  
• Use a static screen
  
  
  
  • Again, this is not much but it is better to do. By default, you can ask your Mac to display several wallpapers after each other. It's super cute, very trendy, but it coughed coughed a little bit of food resources. So when you do not need to impress, as history disable this feature to save some RAM.
  
  
  
• Clean your Mac
  
  
  
  • You do not know maybe not, but there are plenty of very nice free utilities for Mac. Among them include maintenance , allowing you to get rid, in a few clicks, all caches in the system, transferring the temporary files, repair permissions (again) and to optimize your bike a little. In other words, it is better to install as soon as possible.
  
  
  
• Upgrading your Mac
  
  
  
  • And, if your Mac is not it more responsive, then it is likely that configuration no longer meets your needs. Please feel free especially not to invest in a faster hard drive (on its notebook line, Apple does a hard disk file of 5600 laps you can find 7200 rounds on many sites) or to buy some more RAM.