Beachballing, Etrecheck - Poor Performance
Hi everyone,
My mac book air has been beachballing & freezing a lot lately so I ran EtreCheck and it came out with poor performance. Any advice is greatly appreciated
Thanks :)
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15
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Hi everyone,
My mac book air has been beachballing & freezing a lot lately so I ran EtreCheck and it came out with poor performance. Any advice is greatly appreciated
Thanks :)
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15
With only 4GB of RAM Catalina is pretty much hogging all available resources. You have several high resource applications such as MS Office and Google Chrome as well. You also have a number of extras - plug-ins etc. To get the best possible performance with your computer you'll need to pare things down: run one or two applications at a time, for example. I'd dump Chrome since it is a known resource hog. You might also consider backing up the computer and then doing a clean install, installing only the applications you absolutely need and only the plug-ins you need.
With only 4GB of RAM Catalina is pretty much hogging all available resources. You have several high resource applications such as MS Office and Google Chrome as well. You also have a number of extras - plug-ins etc. To get the best possible performance with your computer you'll need to pare things down: run one or two applications at a time, for example. I'd dump Chrome since it is a known resource hog. You might also consider backing up the computer and then doing a clean install, installing only the applications you absolutely need and only the plug-ins you need.
You also have bit torrent installed which opens the door to malware and other unwanted things if you are downloading anything that costs money elsewhere. And, as already mentioned, I have no idea how you are running anything with only 4 GB RAM.
Thank you for taking the time to answer, I appreciate it!
Beachballing, Etrecheck - Poor Performance