![]() ![]() If you’ve ever wondered about some of the apps Apple features in their iPhone TV ads, they’ve put theme all in one spot for you. Get Mactracker today from the App Store as a Free download. Otherwise this app is great! I highly recommend it! Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. This way I could go through the database finding all my gear and mark it as a Favorite or “I have that” and then whenever, I wanted/needed to know the specs of a Mac or piece of Apple gear that I owned I could just go right to that section. I’d also like to see an “I have that” section. Don’t get me wrong, I know that the desktop app doesn’t have this either, but it seems like such a natural for the iPhone version. I was actually quite surprised that there was no option to email the specs page of a specific machine. Although the App works as advertised and best of all it’s FREE, like most things there is some room for improvement. Having Mactracker on my iPhone is GREAT! I love the instant access to the specs about machines that I’ll never remember or care to remember. So if you were selling or buying any other Apple gear, this would be a useful tool to have. You guessed it! That stuff is in there too. Let’s say you are a Windows user, but you have an iPhone, iPod, AirPort Base Station, Apple Display, or Apple TV. Processor speed, latest Mac OS that it could run, maximum amount of RAM that you could put in it and all the info about Expansion, Ports, Graphics, and even the famous audible “Startup Chime” feature. Things like when it was introduced and when it was discontinued. Once you scrolled down to iMac G5 (20-Inch iSight) and tapped on it, you would then see all the important information. There you see every iMac model since the first Bondi Blue introduced back in 1998. You would first scroll up to Desktops (assuming you had scrolled down to see what was there) and then you’d tap on iMac. So lets say you wanted to know the specs on the 20″ iMac G5 with iSight camera. Just like the desktop version, Mactracker for the iPhone is organized by category and then by Mac type. Well now that tool comes to your iPhone or iPod touch. It’s a great tool especially when you’re in the market for a used Mac or selling your Mac and you or your customer wants the specs. Mactracker has been a long standing indispensable reference tool on the Mac to look up the specs for all the various Mac hardware that Apple has released over the years. However, Windows users stay tuned, I’ve got a reason why you might want this too. Once that is all set up, you could actually use the internal drive to store or back up files.Įdit: none of the replies showed when I started this post.This one is definitely going to have more appeal to the Mac users out there than the Windows PC users. Getting rid of CleanmyMac and creating a clone of your contents on an external SSD and running the computer from that will help speed things up considerably. You also only have a minimum of 8 GB of RAM and are starting to swap which means it does not have enough for a particular process or app and needs to "borrow" some from elsewhere. That means that that useless app is even more useless: it cannot access what it wants to access, so it just slows down your system and possibly causes havoc while doing so. The new OS versions have everything built in that is needed and, the OS and system files are "sequestered" on a read only, otherwise non-accessible volume which neither you nor anyone or anything else can write to (that is for security). Please check their website for proper uninstall instructions and get rid of it. One pony cannot pull a loaded beer wagon very well.Īside from the fact that you have the original snail like 5400 rpm hard drive which will do everything very slowly, you also have CleanMyMac installed. It does not have the power for pro apps like Adobe Creative Suite, and even the Google Chrome browser is going to burden that computer. I also recommend not loading that iMac up with high-demand apps. Note the blue plastic inserts in USB3 cables. The cable between the external drive and the computer must also be rated USB3 The drive enclosure MUST be rated at USB3 speeds and the solid state drive inside mMUST be rated SATA 6GB/sec to achieve the maximum benefit. Johnson says, your only hope for getting a bit more speed is the external USB SSD option. Here are benchmark scores from the MacTracker database (free in the Mac App Store) for your edu-Mac and the previous year's regular (non-educational) iMacs with faster 4-core processors-yours on top:ĪS D.I. I suspect it will always struggle with Big Sur. ![]() Standard models had fast 4-core processors. This is the crippled educational model with a slow dual-core processor:ġ.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 (i5-4260U) CPU: 2-core ![]()
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