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How to help my mac run faster?
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1728141" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day an welcome to the forums.</p><p></p><p>Of course it is getting slower as it shows its age and why have all those programs up and running togther? A wi-fi drive will speed up nothing, and as you know your hard drive is too full as you need about 25% free space for it to work anywhere near capacity. You can use an external FW drive to remove excess programs certainly.</p><p></p><p>To show you the difference between older and new machine, a 2009 MB with 2GHz CPU returns a GeekBench test score of 2670. An early 2016 MB with a 1.3GHz CPU returns 7403. Answers the question doesn't it? You can increase the memory in your MB to 6GB, 1 x 4GB and 1 x 2GB, but the biggest bang you would get for your buck would be to install an SSD from OWC or Crucial. If you go this way order a new SATA cable as they get very brittle with age and heat and may well crack inside the cover hen you handle it.</p><p></p><p>I would think you already knew all of this before posting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1728141, member: 42497"] G'day an welcome to the forums. Of course it is getting slower as it shows its age and why have all those programs up and running togther? A wi-fi drive will speed up nothing, and as you know your hard drive is too full as you need about 25% free space for it to work anywhere near capacity. You can use an external FW drive to remove excess programs certainly. To show you the difference between older and new machine, a 2009 MB with 2GHz CPU returns a GeekBench test score of 2670. An early 2016 MB with a 1.3GHz CPU returns 7403. Answers the question doesn't it? You can increase the memory in your MB to 6GB, 1 x 4GB and 1 x 2GB, but the biggest bang you would get for your buck would be to install an SSD from OWC or Crucial. If you go this way order a new SATA cable as they get very brittle with age and heat and may well crack inside the cover hen you handle it. I would think you already knew all of this before posting. [/QUOTE]
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