Extend the life of your Mac
Apps and tips to keep your Mac ticking
Upgrading parts can help your Mac stay truly useful for longer, but consider the cost to benefit — for example, a battery upgrade vs a screen repair.
RIGHT THEN. YOU’VE got an old Mac, and you want it to eke out an extra year or two of being productive. The first thing to decide is whether it’s worth doing so. That, surprisingly, is an easier decision than it used to be. While back in the day, you might have shoved all kinds of additional Iitems inside of an old Mac to give it a shot of rocket fuel, most Macs have been sealed boxes for years, so any extras you’re likely to buy today will be modular and external — which means they should suit whatever Mac you buy next.
SORT OUT OR SELL
So that’s a good start. Even better: it’s quite possible that you can do a reasonable amount to improve the state of your Mac without buying anything at all. Sometimes, just fiddling around with settings can give your Mac a healthy speed boost. Binning a bunch of cruft clogging up its internal drive definitely can. And, under certain circumstances, you may even find switching to different apps significantly improves how your Mac performs, due to replacing resource– hungry beasts with svelte alternatives.