
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.
