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I also occasionally run Spring Cleaning to clear the system caches.
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OWC (Other World Computing) makes it easy since they only sell kits for a particular type of memory up to the maximum possible for a particular model Mac. A lot of Mac’s before 2010 can only support either 4, 6, or 8, GB’s of RAM, so check the specs when you order. I would also recommend at least 16 GB’s of memory or more. I’ve done this for several clients with very good results. You have to be running the latest version of Mountain Lion or newer to run the Terminal version of Disk Utility to create a Fusion Drive. OWC sells everything you need to make a Fusion Drive, and posts the instructions for creating one in their support forum. Another option is to create a Fusion Drive which will give you many of the benefits of an SSD and still have high capacity at a reasonable cost. Notwithstanding the catchiness of their title, that is.
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Had MacWorld chosen to focus on using Activity Monitor to see if you actually have a problem and then how to use the information it provides to fix the problems would have made for a much more “shareable” article, in my opinion. The 6th tip, about keeping some disk space clear, has to remain rule-of-thumb advice because diagnosing whether or not your computer is slow due to disk activity is going to be beyond the technical merits of most Mac users (it could be swap space contention or it could be Spotlight indexing or several other kernel-level things taking place). It’s actually the one and only step I’d write up, since it makes you an informed user of your system. Their third tip, to run Activity Monitor and watch what’s using processor time, will allow you to see that most of their other steps have no bearing on how fast you’ll get your work done. It’s basically ignorant of how OS X Mavericks operates. I’m kind of surprised MacWorld would run that story.