Optimize your slow Mac

There's nothing more frustrating than a Mac that takes a long while to execute your commands. Especially when you're in a hurry, not being able to do what you want to because the computer simply won't accept your input, can be downright aggravating. Fortunately, there are ways for you to solve this problem other than throwing your Mac away and buying a new one. Here are several applications that are specifically designed to optimize a slow Mac.

CCleaner

Most of the time, Macs are being slowed down by an excessive amount of junk, leftover files and installed applications that you no longer use. CCleaner is a tool that can really help you out with that. This tool will remove any junk data on your device, delete unneeded language files, clean your entire browsing history and completely uninstall the applications that you no longer need.

CleanMyMac

Serving pretty much the same purpose, CleanMyMac will clear the junk files from iTunes and iPhoto, the system junk and email attachments. Furthermore, it identifies the largest and oldest files on your Mac and offers to delete them, uninstalls applications and completely shreds the sensitive files that you don't want to be recovered.

SpeedUp Mac

.Made by Stellar, SpeedUp Mac includes some decent junk cleaning options as it removes leftover files, the cache, and cookies that resulted from your web browsing sessions, etc. and also uninstalls the application and defragments your disk. However, what I really like about it is that it can find duplicate files and remove them, as well as identify the larger files on your Mac in case you need more free space in a hurry.