
This guide will show you what options you have to replace your storage with a new SSD. Replace it with a bigger and faster SSD, and your computer will get back it's speed and be useable. Usually the second and main bottleneck is your storage. Your computer needs 20% free space to optimise itself. The problem occurs when the internal storage is running out of space. When a Mac runs low on ram it uses the internal storage as a cache. It is not upgradeable but knowing how your computer optimises itself is the key to speeding it up.

Solving a bottleneck will extending the life of your Mac and make using it a joy again.įirst bottleneck is RAM. From 2013 all RAM on a Macbook has been soldered on. There are two speed bottlenecks in a Macbook Pro notebook.
