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I’ve also written guides to installing SSDs inside certain MacBooks, Mac minis, and Mac Pros, which vary in installation complexity from “incredibly easy” to “super difficult.” If you’re lucky enough to have a MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro with an existing SSD inside, price drops and speed boosts are making this a great time to swap the MacBook Air/Pro SSD and improve the capacity. My guide to swapping an old iMac’s hard drive for a new SSD has been really popular with readers, and I’ve received so many “thank you!” emails that I know how happy people have been with their new drives. To help everyone make the swap on their own, I’ve put together a collection of great, easy-to-follow guides.Īpple’s iMacs benefit the most (and often the most easily) when you replace their hard drives for SSDs. Replace (And Repurpose) Your Mac’s Internal Hard DriveĪlthough this might seem like a big step, replacing an older Mac’s internal hard drive with an SSD has the greatest likelihood of radically improving its speed. My article discusses the benefits and tradeoffs you’ll get from cheaper, higher-capacity drives versus more expensive, longer-lasting ones, so you can choose what’s best for your needs. I’ve spotlighted a collection of excellent external Mac hard drives here, most notably G-Technology’s affordable, fast, professional-grade G-Drive USB. Most desktop Mac users will gladly give up portability for reliability.
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If you want something portable with a higher storage capacity, pocket-sized external hard drives such as Seagate’s Seven start at only $100 for 500GB of “take it anywhere” capacity.
If size and portability are your top considerations, a thumbdrive-sized SSD such as OWC’s Envoy Pro mini delivers high reliability and USB 3.0-quality speeds in a Mac-matching metal enclosure. The Mac market is in the middle of a historic shift from traditional mechanical hard drives to hugely faster SSDs that run silent, have no moving parts, and are much smaller. Or you can replace the internal hard drive with a newer, faster solid state drive (SSD), which will radically improve your Mac’s performance across the board. Alternately, you can get an external hard drive to hold your biggest files. You can get rid of space-wasting duplicate files (including doubles/triples of digital photos) using a safe, affordable duplicate-finding app. If your Mac hard drive’s still overloaded with content, there are three ways to fix it. OnyX deletes invisible files, such as OS X and app installer logs, which should have been deleted automatically. GrandPerspective quickly shows you the files and folders that are eating most of your hard drive space. I’ve recommended a couple of free, trustworthy apps to clean and speed up your Mac called GrandPerspective (above) and OnyX. If your computer started out fast but has become slow over time, it’s quite likely that your hard drive is overloaded with files.
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They’ll give you a sense of how fast your Mac’s current key components are, so you can decide whether to spend your money on a small upgrade or full Mac replacement.
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To figure out how fast your current hard drive, CPU, and graphics processor are by comparison with newer Macs, start by benchmarking your Mac with three free downloads: BlackMagic’s Disk Speed Test, Geekbench 3, and Cinebench R15. Is it worth upgrading your existing Mac, or buying a new Mac at a discount? These guides will help you get a handle on your Mac’s features, and understand how they compare with currently-available machines.ĭiagnose Your Mac: How Much Will An Upgrade Help?
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It’s easy to have a general understanding of what is and isn’t working well with your Mac: everyone knows how to explain that “the screen is fine” but “the computer is slow.” If you really want to understand why the screen is fine, and how the computer could be faster, I’ve decoded Apple’s Tech Specs pages for you ( part 1 and part 2) to explain the Mac family’s features in plain English. There’s a lot inside, so you may want to bookmark this piece for future reference!… And you can also get free apps to improve your Mac’s storage and responsiveness, find plain English explanations of your Mac’s technical specs, and learn about the little security screws Apple uses to tamper-proof its machines. This guide walks you through everything: in one place, you can learn about the best Mac hard drives, RAM upgrades, docks, keyboards, trackpads, stands, bags, and travel accessories out there. Today, I’m tying them all together in this handy, one-stop roundup of the best Mac accessories and upgrades. Over the past six months, I’ve published quite a few tutorials to help Mac users improve the performance of older computers, as well as some great guides to the best Mac accessories across a variety of categories.
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