The built-in application is Disk Utility, which you can use to repair disk permissions. (Of course, if you have large libraries or photos, videos, and songs, then you'll arrive there sooner.) As with memory, you can turn to a built-in application or inexpensive third-party apps to clean up your hard drive. You don't have to be a photographer or filmmaker or musician to find that your Mac's hard drive is nearing capacity. The figure it displays is dynamic, giving you something akin to real-time monitoring of your memory usage, and the figure will turn red should it dip below a threshold that you set.
It lets you purge caches and other needless items to free up more memory, but it lists in the menu bar the amount (or percentage, if you so choose) of free memory you have at any given moment.
And with Mavericks moving closer to iOS, it should come as no surprise that there are some apps that can help you in this endeavor. Even without adding more memory, there are some things you can do to rid your Mac of its sluggish ways. Of course, if you have a MacBook, it doesn't necessarily invite you inside your case. For starters, you should first back up your system before engaging in any performance tweaks, and adding more RAM to your system is an effective and relatively cheap and easy way to boost performance. Still, the tips I shared two years ago about cleaning and speeding up your Mac are relevant today.
Mavericks has added a few tweaks and features, all the while inching closer to iOS in a number of areas. I was running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion back then, and today - if you have have dutiful with your updates - you are running Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Two years ago, I shared five tips on how to clean and speed up your Mac. If your Mac has lost a step, there are a few easy ways to speed it back up. Whether you make a fastidious effort to maintain the health your Mac or you take less care of it day in and day out, there will come a time when it will begin to show signs of age, where some days it just can't get up and go like it used to.
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