Make your Mac go faster

There are lots of things you can do to improve the performance of your Mac. Here are the ones that will have the biggest impact

and app icons balloon as the cursor passes over them) can affect performance, so consider switching them off. Go to System Preferences > Dock, or choose Dock from the Apple menu if you’re not on Yosemite. Uncheck the boxes marked ‘Magnification’, ’Animate opening applications’ and ‘Automatically hide and show the Dock’. Click on the ‘Minimize windows’ menu and choose ‘Scale effect’.