Laptop running slow

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This article will help you to diagnose common problems such as lack of maintenance, permissions conflicts and Hard Drive glitches that cause your Mac to run slowly. There are two main routes to take to make your Mac as lean and mean as it was when you bought it (or even more so!)—hardware upgrades and [...]

“It’s a different company than it used to be,” said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray. “It’s not a traditional computer company. It’s a mobile devices company.” The rise of the iPhone notwithstanding, the Mac is still a big part of Apple, which dropped “Computer” from its name in 2007. Macs sell for an [...]

Every now and then, my Macs begin to feel a little sluggish. There are many potential reasons why: I tend to run 8 to 10 applications all the time – and sometimes push 15 or more. This alone will bog down any Mac. At other times, I realize that it’s been weeks since I restarted [...]

How To Speed Up Your Mac Computer Without Spending Cash This is the common basic mentality: in order for your computer to perform better, it needs to be upgraded – that means spending money to buy better components. While that may be true, it is not always the case. A computer, be it a Mac [...]

However, to run these state-of-the-art PCs, we need to install one of the latest OSs. And that’s where we run into trouble. Most people today have either Windows XP or Vista on their PCs. These OSs are modern, possess virtually infinite capacities and can run any of the most modern software. With the greater functionality [...]

Here’s a tip I was made aware of recently that I thought I’d share (though I’d like to take credit, I must give that to some Smart Friends of mine); it’ll help speed up your Mac, and may reduce the appearance of the SPOD (the rainbow cursor). It’s not a hack, and there are no [...]

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The system requirements for the Mac Pirates game aren’t very specific (i’m assuming it’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online because that’s all i could find for the mac): Mac: * OS 10.4.6 (Tiger) * PowerPC G4 or any Mac with any Intel processor * 512 MB RAM * 400 MB free disk space * Broadband [...]

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. My Dell PC, which is an older model running Windows XP, is very slow to boot up and I have a lot of icons on my desktop. Does the [...]