If your Mac's slowed down its RAM might be used to the max. Here's how to free up memory including how to reduce Mac RAM usage without restarting.

If your Mac has lost a step, there are a few easy ways to speed it back up. Two years ago, I shared five tips on how to clean and speed up your Mac.

OS X: Your Mac likes to cache things in your "free" RAM so if you need them later you can load them quickly. This might be nice sometimes, but if you need to free up a lot of memory for a ...

The most common causes of slowdowns in older hardware are full hard drives and insufficient RAM. But luckily, these are easy to fix. Filling your Mac with as much memory as it can take is like ...

Memory Clean is a simple Mac app that clears out unnecessary digital cruft in your Mac's RAM.

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However, in today's preview of the upcoming OS X Mavericks at WWDC, Apple announced a new memory management feature that brings aspects of RAM Doubler back to the Mac OS.

Mac OS X comes with a tool to reveal what's going on in your system memory moment by moment. It's called Activity Monitor, and is found in Utilities within your Applications folder.

Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory.

There are numerous different reasons why your computer might be running a bit slower than usual. This article details the various reasons a PC may be running slowly and explains how to speed up a slow ...