Cacti: The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution. 17 Reasons Why Your Mac Runs Slower Than it Should | ChrisWrites. Has your Mac become as slow as an asthmatic ant carrying some very heavy shopping? It can happen so gradually at first its hard to notice, sometimes its not until you get to use another machine that it finally dawns on you. Macs like all computers, can run slower over time, but it doesn’t have to be like this. By performing a few simple clean up and maintenance tricks, you can have it back running like new in no time. 1. You Need More Memory Upgrading your RAM will probably give you the biggest speed increase out of any of these tips. You can use the Activity Monitor application (under Utilities in the Application folder) to check if your Mac would benefit from more RAM. 2.
It doesn’t hurt to regularly clear out built up Caches, Log files and Temporary Items an easy way to do this is to use an application like CleanMyMac 3. 3. Smart playlists can make iTunes slower as they have to reload every time iTunes is launched. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. iPhone Apps and iPod touch Application Gallery appSafari.com. Mophie, Inc. Apple powerbook hinge repair. Primate Labs Blog. Late last year Ars Technica noticed that some Samsung phones artificially boost performance when running Geekbench 3. This boost inflated Geekbench 3 scores by up to 20%. Since benchmarks are only meaningful when they're treated the same as any other application, we have been working on determining which devices "benchmark boost", and what we should do with results from these boosted devices.
I'd like to share what we've discovered. In order to determine which devices artificially boost performance when running Geekbench we added a "boost detector" to Geekbench 3. The detector embeds a report in each Geekbench 3 result uploaded to the Geekbench Browser. Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)Samsung Galaxy Note 2Samsung Galaxy Note 3Samsung Galaxy S 3Samsung Galaxy S 4Sony Xperia ZSony Xperia Z TabletSony Xperia Z UltraSony Xperia Z1Sony Xperia ZL On both Samsung and Sony devices the boost appeared in Android 4.3.
Geekbench 3.1.5 adds support for BlackBerry 10. Final Thoughts.