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Slow Mac? How to Speed Up and Optimize Your Mac
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(70 ratings)
1,757 students
Created byEmilio Aguero, Palwasha khan
Last updated 11/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to speed up and optimize your Mac
  • How to monitor your Mac's performance and troubleshoot issues
  • Learn the tips and tricks used by IT Technicians to keep Mac's healthy
  • How to adopt best practices when using your Mac, to keep it running great

Course content

1 section • 14 lectures • 1h 44m total length

  • Introduction to this Course3:31

    In this video we will introduce this series, discussing:

    - why your computer starts to run slow

    - what tools you can put in place to speed up your computer

    - what you can do to keep your computer running healthy for longer.

  • Disk Utility, First Aid, Disk Permissions8:59

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to speed up your computer using the Disk Utility application

    - how to fix errors, partition and permissions issues using First Aid.

  • Login and Start-Up Items8:10

    In this video we'll show you:

    - why your computer starts and loads slower over time

    - how to speed up your mac boot time

    - how to reduce apps and processes that are always runnings in the background on your mac

  • Use and Review the Activity Monitor11:43

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to get an overall view of the health of your Mac using the Actiity Monitor

    - how to identify applications and processes that may be using up all your CPU, RAM and Hard Drive resources

  • Browsers - History, Cache, Data, Extensions10:47

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to speed up your Internet browsers, and good practices to follow

    - how to remove extentions (add-on applications) from your browsers that can affect your browsers performance

    - how to clear our your history, cache, and other files not required on your browser

  • Review Visual Effects, Dock, Wallpaper6:38

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to speed up the overall performance of your mac by reducing visual effects from your mac, including animations, dock and other effects

    - how to gain some speed by selecting an appropriate wallpaper


  • Clear and Maintain Your Cache7:48

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to improve performance of your mac and applications by clearing out both your user and system cache's

  • Remove Files and Folders8:00

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to improve your hard drive performance by removing apps and files you don't need

    - why keeping your mac's desktop neat and clean is important

    - why an ssd hard drive may perform better than a sata hard drive

  • Spotlight Speed Improvements8:34

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to speed up the search function (spotlight) on your mac

    - how to improve the indexing performance of files and folders on spotlight

  • New User Profile + Copy Data Over8:46

    In this video we'll show you:

    - why the best thing you could do to speed up your mac is creating a new profile

    - how to create a new profile and move files over between profiles

  • RAM, HDD Review8:48

    In this video we'll discuss and show you:

    - how much ram your computer has, and how reviewing your ram could give you a significant speed boost

    - why a ssd hard drive's performance is better than a standard sata hard drive

  • PRAM and SMC Resets7:14

    In this video we'll show you:

    - how to improve performance and clear out bugs from your mac by resetting the PRAM and SMC within your mac

    - the best times to run the PRAM and SMC resets

  • Keep Growing Your Skills1:30

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  • Final Thoughts3:56

    In this final video we'll discuss and summarise everything that has been demonstrated in this series, along with some final thoughts on things that could be considered and boost performance further.

Requirements

  • A Mac Computer - iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, Mac Mini, MacPro

Description

I love using my Mac computer and know that you do to, but from time to time computers can start to run slower. Your Mac may not be running as good and as fast as when you first got it...and this can be frustrating!

My name is Emilio and I am IT professional and have been helping people like you to get the best performance out of their computers for years! Having been an Apple Engineer, I know how Mac's work and the tricks to keep your Mac running great.


In this course we will provide you with the tips, expertise and steps needed to get your Mac is running better, faster and healthy for longer. We'll go through some recommendations and the top techniques used by IT Technicians to ensure your Mac is in top shape.


Some of the items that we'll cover include

- fixing disk permission issues

- reviewing your Mac's activity monitor

- clearing up invalid and corrupt files from your Mac

- optimising performance by tweaking your Mac settings

- looking at your Mac's RAM and Harddrive space

- and much much more.


** This course will save you money as you won't need to take your Mac down to your local computer or Apple store to fix it up or speed  it up, we'll give you the knowledge on how to do this yourself at home. We want to ensure that your Mac keeps running great and healthy for longer!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Mac Users

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