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Apple’s new MacBook Pro features the incredibly powerful M4 family of chips and ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence. Learn more >
Apple’s new MacBook Pro features the incredibly powerful M4 family of chips and ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence. Learn more >
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Apple introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max. Learn more >
Apple introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max. Learn more >
I have been reading past and present forms about how to go about "cleaning up my mac" and the biggest question is whether or not to use third party applications/software?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1
Antivirus applications tend to corrupt iOS and MacOS instead of fix. A member of the "senior staff" of the user-helpers wrote EtreCheck (https://etrecheck.com) that finds many issues regarding speed, memory usage, space usage, potential virus-like issues, etc. Also Malwarebytes for Mac (https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038479294-Download-and-install-Malwarebytes-for-Mac) which is not invasive like Norton.
But mostly items like:
Antivirus applications tend to corrupt iOS and MacOS instead of fix. A member of the "senior staff" of the user-helpers wrote EtreCheck (https://etrecheck.com) that finds many issues regarding speed, memory usage, space usage, potential virus-like issues, etc. Also Malwarebytes for Mac (https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038479294-Download-and-install-Malwarebytes-for-Mac) which is not invasive like Norton.
But mostly items like:
How to improve speed performance, clear cache, free up space, detect threats, etc.
